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INTUITION 

ITS OFFICE, ITS LAWS, ITS 

PSYCHOLOGY, ITS TRIUMPHS 

AND ITS DIVINITY 



BY 

WALTER NEWELL WESTON, LLM. 



" When thou goest, it shall lead thee; 
When thou sleepest, it shall keep thee; 
And when thou awakest, it shall talk with thee." 

■—Proverb 



NEW YORK 

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CONTENTS 

CHAPTER I 

Instances of Intuition 

Practical examples of intuition in business, finance, 
marriage, history, etc. — Women more intuitive than men. 
— Seeming contest between intuition and reason. — ^Ver- 
satility and painstaking attention to details on part of 
intuition. — Faithful in extremis. — [Page 17] 

CHAPTER II 

Intuition and Reason 

Popular interest in intuition. — Supremacy of love. — 
Duality of everyone's nature and remedy therefor. — 
Divinity of intuition. — Distinctions between intuition 
and reason. — Intuition the short cut. — Indispensable to 
all who do original work. — The key of true genius. — ^Edison, 
Burbank, etc. — Many unconsciously intuitive. — Spon- 
taneity of children. — 

CHAPTER III 

Intuition and Conscience 

Adaptability of intuition. — How to know what intui- 
tion is. — What is conscience? — Its limitations as com- 
pared with intuition. — Conscience argumentative, intui- 
tion inspirational. — Laws of intuition. — Simplicity.^ 
Conscience based on precedent, intuition on inherent 
wisdom. — Criminals sometimes intuitive even though 
conscienceless. — Dangers arising from domination of 



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conscience without intuition. — The " New England con- 
science" and its remedy. — How to cultivate conscience. — 

CHAPTER IV 

Intuition and Consciousness 

Individual, collective, sex, prosperity, absolute, cosmic 
and other phases of consciousness. — The personal ego. — 
Bodily center of intuitive mentation. — Association of 
intuition with love. — Inability of reason to understand 
intuition. — Man's experiences the effect of states of 
consciousness. — Cosmic consciousness the highest goal 
of human attainment. — Spiritual truth discerned spir- 
itually, but not discerned without awakened spiritual 
faculties. — Action and reaction of thought. — Many 
states of consciousness merely forms of bondage, — How 
to attain freedom. — Why people seek a spiritual inter- 
pretation of the times. — Bondage of law consciousness 
generally. — Attainabihty of consciousness of freedom 
from sin, sickness, poverty and ultimate death.— 

CHAPTER V 

Intuition and Grace 

Secret of unfoldment from lower to higher realms of 
consciousness. — How to become free from karma — Grace 
the supreme gift. — Its marvelous riches intuitively dis- 
cerned. — Why Jesus Christ did not condemn those who 
betrayed and assassinated him. — Intuitive perception of 
realm of endless joy, health, peace and supply. — Marvels 
of world within when intuitively awake. — BibHcal author- 
ity. — Paul dehvered from "thorn in flesh" through grace. 
— Identity of intuition, grace, forgiveness, love. — Grace 
a mystical realm until intuitively discerned. — " What is 
truth?" — Spiritual correspondence to law of vacuum.— 
IPage 931 



CONTENTS 7 

CHAPTER VI 

Attainment through Intuition 

Supreme law of intuition. — Resources of Deity available 
to all. — Fear neither creative nor constructive. — Intuition 
a perfect servant. — The one fundamental religion, and its 
highest form. — How to get the answer to your personal 
problem now. — Intuition's voice a "continuous per- 
formance." — How intuition is cultivated. — How to avoid 
mistakes. — Use of denials. — Formulas and their intelh- 
gent use. — How to discriminate between the Real and 
unreal Self. — Freedom by knowledge of truth only. — 
Present availabiUty of all good. — Remedy for those "nega- 
tive in consciousness" or who "lose their grip." — Hope 
and dehverance for all. — How to know conclusively. — 
How to cultivate and express your own true individuaUty. 
— How to suppress "personaHty." — How to become 
"centered in consciousness." — How to discriminate agamst 
errors within. — What to do with premonitions. — Always 
that within which is greater than any problem. — Self- 
depreciation, seK-pity and self-condenmation and their 
healing. — When to seek advice. — Intuitive co-operation 
between two or more persons. — How to avoid disagree- 
ments, quarrels, psychic interference and hypnotic influ- 
ence. — The Divine Idea and how to become identified 
with it. — Using the Now aright. — Divine law of love back 
of all. — How to become free from dominating mentalities. — 
Intuition's revealings personified as Wisdom in the Bible. — 

CHAPTER VII 

Intuition and the Times 

Real and apparent laws. — Trend of our ongoing ever 
upward. — All manifestations on the human plane the 
result of co-operation of God and man. — Woodrow Wilson 



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as an example of the intuitive person. — 'I'he war a contest 
between higher and lower consciousness. — Fundamental 
principles and their inevitable triumph. — Prussianism 
is "personality" gone rampant. — Both individual and 
collective thought has its action and reaction. — Unused 
faculties or resources fatal, whether on the part of peoples 
or individuals. — Apparent inability of Christianity to 
cope with present chaos, and why. — Inevitability of 
spiritual awakening through intuition — Even more 
important than physical victory. — Many intuitively 
perceive Great Cosmic Movement. — Significant features 
of same. — Deep and fundamental, yet simple, spiritual 
principles involved. — Fatal mistake of Kaiser WilUam. — 
Supreme lesson for the individual. — Resistance and non- 
resistance. — Modus operandi of true non-resistance and 
false ideas concerning the same. — Distinction between 
the pacifist and the non-resistant. — How non-resistance 
may be practiced individually and nationally in the war. — 
Times of testing. — The supreme motive, the supreme 
power and the supreme test of men and of nations in the 
Great Cosmic Movement. — 



**I am seeking to face realities and to face 
them without soft concealments." — Woodrow 
Wilson. 



FOEEWOED 

This book deals with that sense or fac- 
ulty in the human mind by which man 
knows (or may know) facts of which he 
would otherwise not be cognizant, facts 
which might not be apparent to him through 
process of reason or so-called scientific 
proof. This faculty is called intuition. The 
possibilities of training the sense are limit- 
less, and when so trained man is enabled 
to transcend his former self, thus opening 
new realms of discernment, wisdom, joy, 
realization and self-expression. All this 
may be accomplished without entering the 
pseudo-realm of the psychic or that of 
superstition. 

There are persons who are unconsciously 
intuitive yet who would reject the sugges- 
tion that they themselves are ^ * spiritual. " 
In a sense everything that is, is spiritual. 
A spider or a snake is a manifestation of 
an idea in the Divine Mind, and is there- 
fore spiritual in that it is one of the visible 
manifestations of Spirit. In the human 
9 



10 FOREWORD 

consciousness, however, there is an obvious 
and positive spiritual realm as contra- 
distinguished from the mental. It is not 
always wise to try to draw the line of 
demarcation between them, but at times it 
is clearly helpful in one's quest to know 
that one is applying spiritual laws, and 
thereby finding the solution of life's secrets 
and complexities. 

Intuition is the faculty by which, if we 
will but listen, we may solve the problem 
that clutches at our heart-strings or throt- 
tles us at the throat, the problem that we 
never mention and that is seemingly un- 
thinkable, but which in fact has a spiritual 
solution — and none other. 

The use of the words, conscious, sub- 
conscioiis and super-conscious are as a 
rule herein avoided. No true spiritual at- 
tainment is made by subdividing the mind, 
but only by seeing its unity with the One 
Universal Mind. In this and many other 
ways the spiritual processes are the re- 
yerse of the mental. The expression, Spirit, 
and not the Spirit, is also employed as 
being more fitting. 

In order to obtain the largest possible 



FOREWORD 11 

view of our subject that phase of the doc- 
trine of reincarnation which relates to con- 
tinuous existence is herein accepted. Re- 
jecting the horrible theory that the human 
soul after death passes, for instance, into 
the body of a dog or a cat, it is assumed 
that every man always has lived and al- 
ways will live somewhere, whether in the 
body or out of it, presumably on this planet 
or some other. These pages, however, are 
most emphatically not intended to deal 
with the spiritualistic but with the truly 
spiritual realm. 

The tribute to President Wilson implies 
no infallibility on his part. The greater 
any man's capacity for attaining the 
heights, the greater by comparison his mis- 
takes and even also the depths to which 
he may seemingly fall. The further we 
delve into the realm of the spiritual, the 
more subtle become the sophistries of rea- 
son to lure us backward — or make us stand 
to our high convictions, as the case may 
be. So far as we have any record, Jesus 
Christ was the onlv ** initiate that never 
failed.'' 
i No other study is so fascinating and so 



12 FOREWORD 

Batisfying as tliat of spiritual truth, nor 
does any lead into such wonderful realms 
of consciousness. There are ideas which the 
human mind is capable of entertaining, 
however, that are not easy to express in 
language. This arises partly from the 
fact that, while our mother tongue is copi- 
ous in words having a materialistic mean- 
ing, it is not so rich in terms conveying 
the niceties of spiritual significance. But 
a knowledge of High Truth is acquired not 
so much through description as through 
discernment. The signal message of this 
book is therefore not the one expressed in 
words but the one realized by reading be- 
tween the lines. 

"Were it not that many persons are un- 
consciously intuitive it might be quite un- 
necessary to give any practical instances of 
intuition. So subtle and so simple are the 
actual operations of the mystic sense that 
by comparison any description of them 
seems crude. At the risk of having some 
non-discriminating person say, * * You do not 
have to be intuitive to see that," certain 
examples are given which may at first 
thought appear to be the product of reason 



FOREWORD 13 

rather than intuition, or too trivial in their 
nature to be worthy of publication. Every 
citation, however, is believed to illustrate 
a distinct problem, need, or important 
phase of human experience, and is submit- 
ted advisedly. Since no sparrow falls to 
the ground without the knowledge of 
Deity, assuredly it may not be unworthy 
of us occasionally to seek the cause and 
significance of the fall. The instances given 
are selected from the many available, and 
are intentionally chosen not in an effort to 
relate spectacular or thrilling episodes or 
as evidence in support of a theory, but as 
illustrations of more or less commonplace 
experiences. Those who seek startling 
stories of intuitive warnings, for instance, 
may find them in abundance after any great 
railroad wreck or the sinking of a Titanic. 
The facts, philosophy, evidence, infer- 
ences and conclusions herewith submitted 
are the result of a lifetime of study. 
The book is offered not as an argument 
but rather as an analysis, in nowise dog- 
matic, controversial, or exhaustive, but 
merely suggestive and helpful. It is writ- 
ten not as an appeal to reason, yet is 



14 FOREWORD 

believed to be most reasonable. If its 
message be of truth, well and good. Truth 
needs no defense, nor can one truth conflict 
with another. The author has no desire 
to pose as an authority. Truth is its own 
authority. If your philosophy contains 
more of truth, let us have it. Let it cost 
what it will of time, money, thought or ef- 
fort, but truth at any price I To refuse to 
accept truth because we do not know where 
its acceptance will lead us is to be weak in- 
deed, as well as cowardly. That we per- 
sonally do not perceive a certain truth 
makes it none the less a truth, but the 
denial thereof shuts us out from its values 
and its benefits. 

Let the book stand or fall in accordance 
with its measure of truth. 

Walteb Newell Weston. 
New York City, March 5, 1918. 



** Man's true good never comes from 
without him, but only from the depths of 
divinity within him.'' — Henry James, 



CHAPTER I 

Instances of Intuition 

A MAN and a boy were playing parlor 
bagatelle. The man projected a marble 
into the cavity numbered 80, and the boy 
remarked, * ^ I knew your marble was going 
into 80 before you played.'' 

How did he know it? 

Two young men were partners in stock 
speculation. For a time all went well but 
later they lost heavily, their capital finally 
being nearly wiped out. At a conference 
held at this crucial time, Mrs. Norbelle, the 
wife of one of the partners, was present. 
She had never traded in stocks nor been 
associated with Wall street affairs, but it 
had been observed by the two men that on 
various occasions she had predicted the 
rise and fall of certain stocks with un- 
erring precision. In the crisis confronting 
them it was decided to make use of this 
gift if possible. It was accordingly ar- 
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18 INSTANCES OF 

ranged that Mrs. Norbelle should have ac- 
cess to the market reports and, at first 
within certain limits, buy or sell as she felt 
led to do. So great was her success that a 
handsome sum was realized and former 
losses recouped. 

A young girl was present at an interview 
between her father and a stranger who had 
come from a distance for the purpose. 
When the visitor had departed the girl 
remarked to her father, **What that man 
said is not so,'' referring to the business 
conversation. The father at first was dis- 
posed to resent the daughter's statement, 
but so persistent was she in it that he de- 
cided to investigate further. He did so, 
and by reason of the child's warning was 
spared a worthless investment. 

How did the girl know? 

A certain financier of national reputa- 
tion rarely takes the time necessary to 
listen to the facts pertaining to a new 
business proposition when it is presented 
to him. Almost before the interviewer has 
gotten under way with his story the banker 
will say, **Yes," or **No," as the case 
may be, and the interview is at an end, 



INTUITION 19 

sometimes with seeming abruptness. It is 
the man's practice to rely upon his first 
impressions, and then allow nothing to 
reverse his decisions. He explains his 
method by saying that he only watches to 
see if the proposition **f eels'* good or bad, 
as the case may be. Almost invariably his 
decisions prove correct, though often dif- 
fering from those of his trusted associates. 
A certain Miss Melton of Newport was 
about to be married. The day for the cere- 
mony was at hand. The parties to the en- 
gagement were socially prominent and 
members of families long acquainted. From 
every human standpoint the match was 
ideal. Nevertheless the young woman had 
misgivings. No other man, nor so far as 
she knew, did any other woman enter into 
the situation. As the hour for the sig- 
nificant event drew near her forebodings, 
without assignable cause, ripened into deep 
convictions. All the incidents of her ac- 
quaintance with her fiance seemed to pass 
before her in procession. There was noth- 
ing to condemn, but the conviction that she 
ought not marry the man in question was 
like a horrible phantom before her. Yet 



20 INSTANCES OF 

she permitted the wedding to take place as 
planned. 

With actual knowledge succeeding pre- 
monitory conviction came the impulse to 
return to her father's home. To have done 
this would have been far easier then than 
it ever could be later. Yet she took no 
decisive action. Months ripened into 
years. Life itself became a nightmare, 
seemingly not worth living. With the pass- 
ing of time the woman came to realize in 
fullest measure that the pride and fear 
that paralyzed her will were but the prod- 
uct of her own thought. Not until she had 
endured the mockery of marriage for 
twenty years, however, did she find the 
courage to sever the tie that had robbed 
her of her youth and throttled all true self- 
expression. Whom God hath put asunder 
let no man join together. 

In a somewhat parallel case the young 
woman, Mrs. Rangeford of Washington, 
sounded the decisive note within herself one 
lonely moonlight night looking out of her 
window toward the Alps. She then only 
waited until the wedding journey was at an 
end and her feet once more on her native 



INTUITION 21 

soil to bid good-bye forever to the man 
whose mere presence had become torture to 
her. Thereupon a new realm of joy, har- 
mony and victory promptly opened, com- 
mensurate with her faith and decision. If 
we are disobedient to this mystic sense the 
way becomes befogged and beclouded, re- 
quiring still greater effort of will to take 
the step that frees. But prompt obedience 
opens the pathway to gardens of joy and 
peace hitherto undreamed of. 

There is no sphere of life in which the 
divine faculty of intuition so asserts itself 
as in that of marriage. ~^ 

Miss Beryl Greenwood of Boston, after a 
protracted engagement, was about to be 
married to an Episcopalian clergyman, 
who, on the eve of the day j&xed for the wed- 
ding, jilted her. In response to a demand 
for the reason of his conduct the minister 
stated that, being a rising young clergy- 
man with a future, he had decided that 
Miss Greenwood was of insufficient men- 
tal caliber to take the position which his 
wife would be called upon to fill. 

During the months of illness that fol- 



22 INSTANCES OF 

lowed Miss Greenwood nevertheless had an 
overwhelming conviction that all would yet 
be well. In due time she was taken on a 
foreign tour with the hope that her re- 
covery would thus be aided. While in 
Europe she met another Episcopalian 
clergyman from the States, whom she mar- 
ried. Incidentally it may be stated that 
her husband was of far greater prominence 
in his denomination than the former fiance 
could ever hope to become. 

Because women are more responsive, 
while men are more prone to reason, the 
inner voice seems to speak with more vivid- 
ness with women than with men. 

During the fifteenth century it was 
sought on three occasions to marry a cer- 
tain princess to as many different men 
who, as was the custom, had been selected 
for her. In each case she followed the 
dictates of her own inner leadings and 
resolutely declined the proffered mar- 
riage. Later, having married the man of 
her choice, and having come to share the 
throne jointly with her husband, this girl- 
queen was the means of taking the initia- 
tive in a matter that changed the des- 



INTUITION 23 

tinies of the world. A persistent adven- 
turer with a visionary project which the 
reasonings and the wisdom of men had 
rejected, came to her court. Her feminine 
insight — call it what you will — perceived 
the truth of Columhus's theories and Queen 
Isabella's action provided the finances by 
which a new world was discovered. Obedi- 
ence to intuition always reveals new worlds 
of unlimited potentialities. 

Isabella had the courage of her own 
convictions, declined to listen to the rea- 
sonings of others, and persevered. There 
are times when we must refuse to accept 
the conventions of friends or even public 
opinion as final. If we are true to the 
leadings of intuition it will tell us when 
those times are. 

It is related of Jenny Lind, the ** Swedish 
Nightingale," that when touring the 
United States she was advertised to sing 
in a certain large auditorium the acoustics 
of which were defective. On the occasion 
of music or public cjpeaking jangling noises 
ran riot through its vast spaces, to the 
great annoyance of the audience. Miss 
Lind was informed of this phenomenon, 



24 INSTANCES OF 

and, accompanied by the manager, in- 
spected the building. Seeing a small open- 
ing high np in the roof she told the man- 
ager he must have it closed. He declared 
this impossible in the intervening time, 
**Then,'' said the prima donna, ^^I will not 
sing." The manager knew that public 
opinion would not sustain his position and 
found a way to close the opening. The 
concert was held, Jenny Lind sang, and the 
acoustics proved to be flawless. 

How did she know? 

This occult guide will attend to the most 
minor details. Mrs. Fenn, who resides 
in New York city, says, *^ Intuition splits 
hairs with me." She illustrates this by 
numerous commonplace experiences. For 
instance, while sewing she finds herself 
needing a spool of thread. Some such 
dialog as follows takes place: 

Mrs. F, {to herself). *'I'll go to Macy's 
and buy some thread." 

Intuition. *^Go to Wanamaker's." 

Mrs. F. (reasoning). ^^Why should I 
go way down to Wanamaker's when 
Macy's is close by?" 

Intuition. *'Go to Wanamaker's." 



INTUITION 25 

Mrs, F. (reasoning). **But I'll save so 
much time by going to Macy's." 

Intuition. **Go to Wanamaker's." 

Mrs. F. {realizing that it is intuition 
that speaks, and her intention being always 
to obey). **Well, if you say so I'll go to 
Wanamaker's." 

So, in faith, she goes as directed by the 
higher sense. Often the reason for her 
faith will be made at once apparent. This 
may be by meeting some one she has long 
wished to see, or by finding an advan- 
tageous purchase of merchandise. Later, 
sometimes, she learns that by her obedience 
she has in all probability escaped some un- 
toward situation in which she might have 
become involved to her detriment. 

This incident shows the apparent eon- 
test that often occurs between intuition and 
reason. The fact is there is no contest 
whatever on the part of intuition — intui- 
tion is neither combative nor self-assertive, 
and is entirely non-resistant. With its 
still, small voice, it says ''This is the way.'* 
If we disobey the incident usually passes 
quickly from the mind, to be recalled, if 
at all, with regret. 



26 INSTANCES OP 

Mr. Miller of New York, a financier who 
organized some of the earlier trusts was in- 
duced by a company of friends to describe 
his method of procedure: Assuming that 
there were a dozen competing concerns in 
the industry selected he would interview 
the representative men of all with the hope 
of inducing them to enter the proposed 
combine. The result of these interviews 
was usually nil, actual hostility to the plan 
often manifesting. The promoter would 
then begin with Number One on his list 
and again interview the same men, in all 
probability without finding one hopeful 
prospect. 

**What would you do then?'' he was 
asked. 

^*Go fishing," was the answer. 

** Literally or figuratively?" 

'*Both." 

Here was a crisis. To give up at this 
point meant failure and though most men 
would have done so was not to be consid- 
ered for a moment. While Mr. Miller did 
not know the principle involved he knew 
in fact that there is a supply for every 
demand. After the second or third round 



INTUITION 27 

of interviews he would drop the entire 
matter so far as outward action was con- 
cerned and go on a prolonged fishing trip. 
He knew that in the silence of the forest 
he could with certainty rely upon getting 
the idea that would solve the seemingly 
hopeless problem. His practice was to tie 
his thought to no preconceived suggestion, 
but to leave his mind receptive. Invari- 
ably it struck the key-note. For instance, 
on one occasion while quietly holding his 
fishing rod, came the suggestion that John 
Preston of Cleveland, a most capable su- 
perintendent, might be induced to join the 
combine provided he could be its general 
manager. Proceeding cautiously along the 
line of this *^ hunch,'' as the promoter 
termed it, he secured the co-operation of 
the man in question, who had hitherto ex- 
pressed opposition only. Mark Warren of 
Dayton was induced to join through the in- 
fluence of Preston, and then others until 
the requisite number had ** signed up." 

There are no accidents. All is in ac- 
cordance with law. Every manifestation 
is the effect of an antecedent or coexistent 



28 INSTANCES OF 

cause. The condition being the same, the 
** accident" always comes, but it is as much 
the result of law as are the events not 
called accidents. 

A boy was bathing in a lake. On wading 
ashore he stepped on some sharp object 
and cut his foot. Against his mother's 
wishes he had prolonged his stay in the 
water. He admitted that he had violated 
a clear and positive impulse to discontinue 
his bath. The cut was not a punishment 
but the perfectly natural consequence of 
violating an intuitive lead. Audible in- 
structions may be merely the correspond- 
ence to an inward authority. Everj' meta- 
physician knows that the outer world is 
but the manifestation of interior conscious- 
ness. 

Intuition is perception, not so much of 
theories as of sense regarding the matter 
in hand. Under new, novel or trying cir- 
cumstances one is often unerringly guided 
by the supernal faculty. A young woman 
of high-strung, sensitive nature won a 
spelling-match at a time when her school 
work was not of a high order. She ex- 
plained it afterwards by saying that as the 



INTUITION 29 

words were given her she could feel just 
how they were to be spelled. 

With intuition cultivated through use 
comes the ability to turn it in any desired 
direction. A woman thus trained secured 
a position in the United States Treasury. 
Her duties required the handling of gov- 
ernment cash and she became so skilful 
in detecting counterfeits that she would re- 
ject a spurious note the instant her fingers 
touched it, intuitively even discarding 
counterfeits that had been overlooked by 
other experts. 

The more desperate our situation, the 
louder speaks intuition. It never fails us 
in extremis, but we must be obedient. 

Some years ago two young men with 
their guide were camping in the forest of 
northern Wisconsin. A violent storm, 
which finally proved to be a tornado, was 
approaching just as it was decided to con- 
tinue toward home rather than back toward 
camp. One of the party, Hicks by name, 
announced that he wished to return to camp 
in order to get his pocket-knife. The mat- 
ter was debated, his friend Howard finally 



30 INSTANCES OF 

assenting, but reluctantly because of the 
consequent delay and approaching storm. 

Reason said, Continue home; intuition 
said. Irrespective of delay, storms or even 
inconvenience to others, get the knife. 
Hicks obeyed intuition. The party was de- 
layed an hour. Had this not been so its 
members would probably have lost their 
lives in the tornado which traveled along 
their trail at just the time they had in- 
tended going over it, and which later was 
found to be impassable to their horses be- 
cause of the ravages of the storm. 

A certain Mr. Smithson, who inherited 
wealth and who had always been associated 
with persons of means, when in middle life 
found himself in such financial difficulties 
that he turned over all his property to his 
creditors, and with but a few dollars in 
his pocket, departed from his native city 
and went to New York **to seek his for- 
tune. '* Let him describe what next oc- 
curred : 

**I engaged quarters in a hotel and re- 
tired for the night. It was clear I must 
do something to get on my financial feet, 
but I had no distinct purpose and no plans. 



INTUITION 31 

On thinking over the situation the next 
morning I realized I must go where there 
were people who had money. I have never 
felt at ease with persons in the poverty 
consciousness. I could think of no more 
appropriate place than the Horse Show at 
Madison Square Garden, which I there- 
upon decided to attend. Certainly there I 
would be with persons who had money." 

On entering the exhibition he met two 
men of his acquaintance who, in the course 
of conversation, informed him that they 
were about to enter upon the manufacture 
of certain textiles. **Then,'' said Mr. 
Smithson, who was familiar with the tex- 
tile industry, **you should have the 

Mill," mentioning a certain factory in a 
neighboring state. **We know we should, 
but we cannot buy it," was the reply. 
Quickly came the intuitive inspiration and 
promptly Smithson acted upon it. *'I be- 
lieve I can get it for you," said he. 

An agreement was entered into by which 
Mr. Smithson undertook for his friends the 
purchase of the property mentioned. In 
six weeks' time the deal was consummated, 
and he returned to his home in Massachu- 
setts with one hundred and seventy-five 



32 INSTANCES OF INTUITION 

thousand dollars as his commission in the 
transaction. He has since successfully con- 
ducted other deals with even larger re- 
turns. 

No one could keep a man of that kind in 
poverty. There are literally thousands no 
more gifted and no less intuitive than Mr. 
Smithson who, if they would but use their 
God-given powers would achieve as great 
things in their affairs as he in his. 



i i 



The finest impulses come from the 
spontaneous action of our inner nature, not 
from calculating reasoning.'' — Author un- 
known. 



CHAPTER II 

Intuition and Reason 

The Ladies' Home JournaV prints the 
following on its editorial page: 

** 'You wrote a month ago/ says a man, 'that 
we are always safe to act upon our intuitions. 
Suppose those intuitions should prompt us 
wrong; what thenT . . . 

''One's intuitions will not prompt one wrong; 
they can't. Because what we call intuition is 
simply the voice of the soul ; God's voice, in other 
words, and it is never wrong. The trouble is 
not that it will lead us wrong so much as we 
think it will. The voice of God in man's soul 
is always leading us to the highest standards of 
right and truth and justice. When it seems to 
speak to us in other terms it is not the voice 
of the soul, which is the voice of our higher self ; 
it is the voice of the lower self that is speak- 
ing. . . . 

"Men are afraid to act upon what they call 
'intuition,' women are not. They do so act 
and invariably they are right. But man goes 
along his customary way, reasoning it out, *giv- 

iJuly, 1914. 
35 



36 INTUITION 

ing the matter careful thought and considera- 
tion/ he calls it, and then after a few days or 
a few weeks — and sometimes after a few years 
— comes out at exactly the point which the 
woman decided upon by intuition." 

The Engineering and Mining Journal^ 
contains the following: 

' ' There is a market-letter writer in Wall Street 
who frankly admits that he judges the course 
of the market not by reason but by intuition.' 
'When I write my market advice in the morn- 
ing/ he says, 'I simply try to get the ^^feel" 
of the market. I say that the outlook is that 
the market will go up, or that the outlook is 
that it will go down. Sometimes I give my rea- 
sons, but very often I don't. I simply cannot 
give my reasons, because I do not know them. 
Frankly I write on what I suppose you would 
caU a ^^hunch." ' " 

The Evening Post, commenting on the 
above, says: 

** People may call this superstition, but people 
do not know. This market-letter writer often 
does give the reasons for his predictions; he is 
a keen student of conditions and of the tech- 
nical status. . . . His record compared with that 
of other market-letter writers is astonishingly 
good. 

1 March 31, 1917. 



AND REASON 37 

**A phenomenon not unlike this is often ob- 
served among fishermen, guides, and others who 
qualify as local weather prophets. Though they 
occasionally talk of winds and moisture and the 
look of the sky, they have little scientific knowl- 
edge of the weather; yet they have an uncanny 
habit of being right. 

'< *Why don't you speculate?' the market- 
letter writer was asked. *I used to,' he replied, 
'but never successfully. "When I speculate my 
fears and hopes make me nervous and confused ; 
I try to justify my moves with reasons pro and 
con, and I lose my ''hunch." 

"Mining engineers will understand this. 
What engineer of long experience is there who 
cannot relate instances of being in an ore-body 
penetrated by only one drift, with no means for 
measurement according to the accepted tenets, 
and feeling the conviction that he was in the 
midst of a whale of an ore-body ; and in another 
case that he is merely surrounded by a thin 
shell of ore ? Yet in neither case can he outline 
any real reasons. If he tried to they would 
very likely be weak. 

**0f the same order is the advice, 'Never give 
reasons. Your judgment may be fine and your 
reasons feeble.' Who also does not remember 
cases of the young mining engineer who is superb 
in his advice to clients and unsuccessful when 
he goes into mining ventures on his own ac- 
count?" 



38 INTUITION 

In their treatment of our subject these 
articles are better than are usually found 
in current periodicals. They are repro- 
duced here as instances of the every-day 
manifestation of intuition and of the popu- 
lar interest therein. What the writers say 
of getting the ^^feeP' of the market, the 
giving of reasons, and the impossibility of 
intuition prompting us wrong are espe- 
cially noteworthy. 

In general we become most intuitive con- 
cerning that upon which we most concen- 
trate, and we concentrate most easily upon 
the thing we most love. Love, being funda- 
mental, inspires intuition as it inspires 
every other faculty. The fingers of the 
expert pianist become nimble and dexter- 
ous to the point where we say his playing 
is ** second nature,'' which is saying he 
plays intuitively. The gambler becomes 
intuitive with respect to his game, the 
financier concerning the stock-market, the 
young woman in regard to her lover and 
the mother as to her child. 

Every person has a dual nature. Not 
that every one is a complete Dr. Jekyll 



AND REASON 39 

and Mr. Hyde, but every man has a femi- 
nine side to his nature and every woman 
a masculine side. Often in the play of 
personal will the tendency on the part of 
the man is to resist the feminine of his 
nature, and correspondingly the woman 
the masculine of hers. This explains why 
many a man, and many a woman also, re- 
mains unmarried. The visible marriage 
is but the outward manifestation of the 
man's finding the feminine of his own 
nature and identifying himself with it; 
similarly with the woman. 

As between the masculine and feminine 
of our nature the true relation is balance. 
We are constantly confronted with duality, 
real or apparent. All conception is dual, 
on all three planes. Emotions and intellect 
have constantly to be harmonized. God is 
both male and female. Father and Mother. 
The reasoning or rational mind is to be 
harmonized with the passive and feminine 
intellect, or intuitive principle. Speaking 
along this line a gifted writer says : 

*'The development of this intuitive principle 
is the first step towards the attainment of 
spiritual life and knowledge. It is not good for 



40 INTUITION 

the man in us to be alone. The rational in- 
tellect in us by itself is insufficient. Hence God 
is represented as saying, I will make him a help, 
or a governing or ruling principle (as the word 
may mean) meet for him, or, as more literally 
rendered, that answers to him, 

''Intuition is the birth or evolution of the 
woman in man, that which is highest and comes 
next to God. Its development in man is sym- 
bolized by the dove coming upon him. Of 
Jesus it is said, at the time of his entrance upon 
his Messianic work, at the age of thirty years 
(a mystic number), that the heavens were 
opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of 
God descending and coming upon him in the 
form or quality of a dove, the Hermetic repre- 
sentative of the receptive feminine intellect, the 
intuition. It is man's highest guide to truth 
either in earth or in heaven. It is the only 
faculty in man through which divine revelation 
comes, or ever has come. By means of it we 
gain access to an interior and permanent region 
of knowledge, where are stored up all the truths 
which ever were known or can be known. ''^ 

At the present time this blending of the 
masculine and feminine in man is express- 
ing itself most significantly in the move- 
ment known as Woman ^s Suffrage. It is 
apparent that this manifestation is in ac- 

1 From "Esoteric Christianity," by W. T. Evans. 



AND REASON 41 

cordance with psychological and spiritual 
laws, and is therefore inevitable. Spirit 
made men and women to co-operate in 
every sphere of self-expression. In order 
that woman may have balance she needs 
association with the masculine mind; cor- 
respondingly man needs to be responsive 
to that which is intuitive and feminine, 
and a mutuality of adjustment follows in 
every instance where sincere effort is 
made. The German war is revolution- 
izing the consciousness of the world as to 
the working relations of men and women. 
Be the resistance to divine laws what it 
may, with the coming of peace there will 
be no retrograde movement. 

To all duality balance is ever the mys- 
tical key. On the spiritual plane, however, 
we have to learn that balance consists in 
knowing the absolute nothingness of that 
which is only an appearance, such as lack, 
failure, sickness, fear, etc., and the abso- 
lute allness of tJiat which is — Truth, 
Health, Prosperity, Life, Spirit. **He 
that hath ears to hear, let him hear." 

A noted college president has defined 



42 INTUITION 

education as the ability to do the right 
thing in the right way, at the right time. 
This becomes the more possible by means 
of an intuitive mind. vTo awaken intuition 
is the true education, because to find in- 
tuition is to find the Eeal Self. 

*' Education was supposed to be what the word 
radically signifies, the recaUing of truths and 
states that belonged to a former and higher 
existence of man. Such was the doctrine of 
Plato. . . . 

*' All true education is a spiritual development. 
Spiritual knowledge is imparted, not by verbal 
discourse merely, but by the silent influence 
of mind upon mind. It is a principle that has 
always been recognized in the world, that one 
mind by the influence of its silent sphere, can 
lift another mind to a higher intellectual 
level. . . . 

**This has always been a method of instruc- 
tion practiced by the Hindu adepts in teaching 
the neophyte the principles of their occult 
philosophy. The cliela, or scholar, is subjected 
to the psychological influence of the guru, or 
teacher, who aims to impart to him knowledge 
through the Universal Mind. The disciple waits 
upon the master in a spirit of emptiness, and 
the intellectual sphere of the teacher's mind 
fills the vacuum. This is a method of instruc- 
*^ion and of acquiring knowledge entir*^ly un- 



AND REASON 43 

recognized in our western systems of instruction, 
but has long been known in the Orient, was 
practiced by Jesus, and belongs to Chris- 
tianity."^ 

There is a judgment of God concerning 
man and every detail of life. It is the 
office of intuition to reveal to us that judg- 
ment, which is sometimes called the 
^* Divine Idea.'' God's idea of man is that 
he is ^*made in the image and likeness of 
God." Man's idea of man is usually far 
less than this. It being true that **As a 
man thinketh in his heart, so is he," he 
manifests accordingly. 

Jesus Christ himself quoted the Old 
Testament thus : 

**I said. Ye are gods, 
And all of you sons of the Most High." 

The Divine Idea, either of man or of any 
detail of life, is not revealed to us through 
the intellect, however important is its 
subordinate function. Intellect is a task- 
master. * * The school of intellect unites us 
to the world, that of intuition unites us 
to God." Mere knowledge is not wisdom. 
Intellect has no wisdom of itself. Wisdom 

1 From "Esoteric Christianity," by W. T. Evans. 



44 INTUITION 

is spiritually discerned. ^^When the Spirit 
of truth is come, he will guide you into 
all truth." 

*'By giving this prominence to the intuition 
we would not imply any disparagement of the 
rational intellect, for it is only through this 
latter that the truths of intuition can be repro- 
duced and expressed in language. The intellect 
must be developed and cultivated to the utmost, 
not as the instrument of discovering but of com- 
municating truth. Perfecting and combining 
these two departments of our being, the rational 
intellect and the spirit, which is the union of 
the masculine and feminine in man, he attains 
to the highest knowledge which it is possible for 
the human mind in this world to reach ; for man 
thus knows God, and to know God is to have and 
be God, and 'the gift of God is eternal life.' ''^ 

Intellect deals with the surface mind, in- 
tuition with the inner consciousness. In- 
tellect involves reason, memory, every 
mental faculty; intuition is inborn experi- 
ence, inherent knowledge, the perception of 
things. *^The foolishness of God is wiser 
than men.'' 

Man in ever recurring frequency is 
confronted with two pathways. One is 

1 From "Esoteric Christianity," by W. T. Evans. 



AND REASON 45 

invariably the way of reason, usually of 
conscience and sometimes of fear. Also it 
is often the path of expediency and always 
the long, weary way of experience. The 
other is the way of faith, pointed out by 
intuition, and is the short cut to the goal 
in consciousness identical with that of the 
longer experiential way. 

Eeason is methodical and mechanical, a 
good servant but a bad master. Intuition 
is illimitable, fascinating, never twice alike, 
far-seeing and far-reaching, unconvential, 
even lawless, inspirational, brilliant, **The 
light that lighteth every man that cometh 
into the world." 

Many persons are habitually intuitive 
but do not always realize the fact. Every- 
thing may be going smoothly and there is 
little consciousness of intuition, but violate 
it and see how quickly things will *^go 
wrong." Every normal man expresses 
himself in some realm in which his knowl- 
edge acts more or less automatically, which 
is to say that it acts intuitively. 

To the realm of original ideas intuition 
is the connecting link. Men of the Edison 



46 INTUITION 

and Burbank type are intuitive investi- 
gators. This would not be so were they 
dominated by conventionality or tradition. 
They have the courage of their intuition 
and act on it. The one attribute that any 
successful, original investigator must in- 
dispensably possess is intuition. All in- 
ventors, all great financiers, generals, 
statesmen, pioneers of every Mnd, all 
creative workers, are intuitive. As for wit 
and humor, poetry, music, art, intuition is 
the soul of their soul. 

This regnant faculty serves the poor 
as well as the rich, the lowly as truly as 
the aristocratic, the cook in the kitchen as 
surely as the banker in his office. To be 
a faithful servant it only requires that it 
be master. 

Intuition is the gateway to the super- 
mental realm. It is the key of true genius 
for it is the pathway of true self-expres- 
sion, which in turn is the secret of indi- 
viduality. 

Many persons, devoid of self-conscious- 
ness, in the beautiful simplicity of their 
nature, express themselves intuitively in 
perfect abandon and oblivion. The con- 



AND REASON 47 

versation of children often shows this to 
a marked degree. 

*'Does the skylark consider his method of ex- 
pression? No; it comes with his song — spon- 
taneously, beautifully, mysteriously, rapturously. 
He is a skylark. He sings. He has no need to 
question why. The sun might as well ask why 
it shines, or the stars wonder why they hang 
rhythmically in the sky, or the waves marvel 
that they beat in unison on the shore." 

There are persons who are considered 
failures and whose work is mediocre in 
fact yet who actually have the ability to 
express themselves in a superior way if 
they could do something in which for them 
was inspiration, in other words if they 
could work not mechanically but intuitively. 
Youth would always be intuitive were it 
not, through contact with older minds, 
sidetracked into reason. The rare voice 
of many a singer is ruined by teaching 
which substitutes mechanical for inspira- 
tional methods. Sometime we shall have 
a system of education which will not de- 
stroy the spontaneity and initiative of the 
pupil. There is a wealth of untapped re- 
source in this field. 



48 INTUITION 

In his ongoing man comes to certain 
more or less definite stopping-places in 
consciousness, none of which excepting the 
Christ consciousness is a finality. ^ * It doth 
not yet appear what we shall be." 

The law consciousness, typified by the 
story of the children of Israel, is the con- 
sciousness of personal identity in which 
man learns that he must necessarily be 
under and obedient to man-made laws as 
well as to the laws of God. This is the 
period of self-consciousness for the pur- 
pose of existence and selfishness in general. 

Coming out from under law man emerges 
into the realm of ** grace." In this con- 
sciousness there is no loss of individuality 
but a finding of universality. This is the 
consciousness that seeks to identify itself 
with the community, the state, the world 
at large, perhaps at first for selfish ends 
but ultimately otherwise. Among historic 
characters Abraham Lincola was a con- 
spicuous example of this in our national 
life, Jesus Christ in the larger sense in 
universal world life. 

If at any given stage of consciousness 
man will comply with the highest in him 



AND REASON 40 

his pathway will be much smoother than 
otherwise and his nnfoldment far more 
harmonious and rounded. His unwilling- 
ness thus to do is what causes all the 
bumps, blows and buffetings of the world, 
the end and purpose of which are to cause 
him to ask himself, Why? and thus ulti- 
mately impel him to strive for the expres- 
sion of the Divine Self of himself in 
accordance with the Divine Idea. Regard- 
less of man's idea of himself, God's idea 
of man, remember, is that he is made *4n 
the image and likeness of God.'* 
Man is God individualized. 



** Thine ears shall hear a word behind 
thee, saying, This is the way/^ — Isaiah. 



CHAPTER III 
Intuition and Conscience 

Intuition adjusts itself with perfect pre- 
cision to and in accordance with individual 
consciousness. Accordingly every man^s 
description of intuition is likely to be his 
description, no two persons agreeing in 
their version. To each reader of these 
lines it doubtless has a different meaning. 

Intuition has been defined in the follow- 
ing ways : 

*'A knowing.'' 

*'A conscious realization.*' 

*'A conviction in spite of appearances." 

'* Sense from the Universal Consciousness on 
the subject in hand." 

''That place within where man and God are 
consciously one." 

*'That faculty of the Soul which brings man 
into conscious communication with the subjective 
mind, or Fountain of Wisdom. ' ' 

''The voice of the Soul." 

' ' The voice of Love. ' ' 

"The voice of knowledge accumulated during 
past incarnations." 

53 



54. INTUITION 

*'The voice of the passive and feminine in- 
tellect.'' 

' ' The voice of Spirit in man again bringing to 
his consciousness that which he knew of old 
when he was consciously identified with the 
Great Central Spirit." 

''The act of the mind by which a truth is 
immediately perceived." 

Intuition is all these — and more. 
The above definitions necessarily over- 
lap in meaning. It is easier to tell what 
intuition does than what it is. Any defini- 
tion limits it. For that reason no attempt 
will be made here to reduce its meaning 
to concrete terms. Let us rather get' 
its significance intuitively. Any word is 
at best but a symbol of something which 
lies back of it. Let us open our individual 
consciousness to that something — the 
actual, the Divine significance. * * The finest 
essences of human life are those that elude 
all philosophy and all language. I do not 
need to be told that a person is patient, 
or gentle, or genial if I live with him. . . . 
I know it without words and without 
analysis. ' '^ 

1 From "The Hidden Way," by J. C. Street. 



AND CONSCIENCE 65 

Man expresses himself, or may be said 
to function, on three planes — physical, 
mental, and spiritual. One of these, 
usually the physical or the mental, domi- 
nates the individual life. But the spiritual 
should dominate, absolutely. When it does 
thus dominate harmony prevails in the 
life, and inharmony when it does not. Few 
persons, alas ! live harmonious lives. 

When the physical dominates the life is 
governed by sex, directly or indirectly. 

When the mental dominates the life is 
governed by reason, usually in conjunction 
with associated faculties, as for instance, 
conscience. 

When the spiritual dominates the life is 
governed by perception. ** Spiritual truth 
is discerned spiritually. ' ^ That is, the con- 
sciousness of spiritual truth is not a 
product of reason but of spiritual discern- 
ment. Spiritual truth is oftentimes seem- 
ingly at variance with reason, but the real 
fact is that it is reason which is at variance 
with truth. 

As distinguished from intuition eon- 
science is merely a mental faculty. It is 



56 INTUITION 

often defined as a sense of right and wrong, 
but there is redundancy in this definition. 
Conscience is a sense of wrong. So long 
as we do what we are absolutely convinced 
is right conscience is silent. It only agi- 
tates us as to something which we believe 
to be wrong. Of right and wrong per se 
conscience has no inherent or absolute 
knowledge. 

Conscience, being mental, acts as it has 
been trained to act. Without training or 
use it becomes dormant, as witness many 
criminals and degenerates. Of such we 
say they lack moral sense. 

Conscience is merely on a par with the 
literary or mathematical faculties. If 
these are unused or untrained they omit 
to express themselves and the person is 
said to be illiterate. Society tolerates 
illiterate persons, but as society itself suf- 
fers when persons lack moral sense in too 
great measure it punishes the lack by im- 
prisoning the persons. This is following 
the line of least resistance but does not 
heal the malady. When we become suffi- 
ciently civilized to educate persons of 
sub-normal mentality by building them up 



AND CONSCIENCE 57 

at the point where they are weak we shall 
make greater progress in eradicating the 
trouble at the root. If society suffered to 
the same extent because of a lack of 
literacy as it does because of a lack of 
moral sense it would in self-protection im- 
prison illiterates. 

A common example of conscience acting 
blindly but in accordance with its educa- 
tion is that of the youth who has been 
taught and therefore believes that he is 
committing an actual sin if he dances or 
plays cards. His conscience troubles him 
at first if he does these things, not because 
he is with persons not as good as he — 
they may be better — nor because dancing 
or card-playing are wrong per se, but be- 
cause of his training. His conscience being 
so trained it is its office, rationally or irra- 
tionally, thus to cause him disquiet. 

Conscience being like the color sense or 
the musical or mathematical faculties of 
the mind is as truly susceptible to educa- 
tion. Intuition, however, is not mental, it 
is spiritual, nor can it be trained by mental 
methods. In general it may be said to be 
untrainable. It is we who must be trained 



58 INTUITION 

to listen and hear when it speaks. Intui- 
tion perceives. It knows. It often knows 
in spite of visible appearances and in spite 
of little of what the world calls education. 
Conscience may be said to reason, not 
so intuition. To it the why is immaterial. 
Yet it ignores no material fact. In its 
knowing it is absolute and monopolistic, 
even arbitrary. It is, however, not argu- 
mentative or resistant. In simple, sub- 
lime majesty its dictum is, **This is the 
way, walk ye in it.^* There is no self- 
importance, no high and mighty air, no 
arrogance, no affectation, no flourish of 
trumpets, no formality — only a simple, lov- 
ing, positive, ** still, small voice." 

Most significant is it that conscience 
speaks negatively, intuition affirmatively. 
The person dominated by conscience may 
be said to resemble the mother who is 
eternally saying to her child, ** Don't do 
this," ** Don't do that," but who never 
gives the child a positive or constructive 
suggestion as to what it may rightfully 
do. The effect is to produce inhibitions in 
the mind of the child, to throttle its ini- 



AND CONSCIENCE 59 

dative, with reactions of discouragement 
and unbalanced unfoldment. In like man- 
ner, conscience operating apart from in- 
tuition exercises a perpetual veto. It is 
forever saying what must not be done, but 
gives no constructive or inspiring initiative 
because it is not its office so to do. 

While the law of intuition is that it 
speaks affirmatively, there are apparent 
exceptions to this, but upon close analysis 
they will be found to be apparent only. 
The Miss Melton referred to in Chapter I 
was intuitively told to cancel her engage- 
ment, a direction clearly affirmative. Her 
depression was due to disobedience in so 
vital a matter. Mrs. Eangeford had been 
intuitively told that she should marry not 
Mr. Eangeford but Mr. Ambrose, whom 
she afterwards actually did marry. 

Under conditions in which there is no 
occasion to speak or in which it cannot 
speak affirmatively the subtle sense not in- 
frequently makes known its attitude by 
withholding its approval, in other words, 
by silence. Miss Trent had all but pledged 
herself to marry a certain man. Know- 
ing something of these principles she 



60 INTUITION 

remarked tliat it was strange tliat on so 
important a matter she had received no 
intuitive lead. She was reminded that in- 
tuition speaks affirmatively only and that 
in this situation it possibly had no message 
for her. So impressed was she with this 
suggestion that she declined the proffered 
marriage, though in view of all the facts 
her decision seemed unreasonable. The 
fact proved to be that the man in the case 
was already legally married. 

A vital distinction between conscience 
and intuition lies in the matter of prece- 
dent. Conscience walks in the beaten track, 
is conventional and conservative. Intui- 
tion knows no law except the law of self- 
expression from the highest standpoint. 
Though its pathway be strewn with ob- 
stacles it always knows the true short-cut 
and never loses sight of its high goal. This 
is due to the fact that it sees a condition 
or situation not piecemeal but in its en- 
tirety. Conscience, on the other hand, is 
prone to dominate because of a mere de- 
tail. For instance, the controlling ^reason 
on the part of Miss Kent for marrying Mr. 



AND CONSCIENCE 61 

Elton was that he was religious — clearly a 
case of ^ ^ duty, ' ' a word without inspiration 
or freedom and based on conscience. Thus 
the woman allowed the situation in its en- 
tirety to be subordinated to a detail. 

Because intuition is lawless in its pro- 
cedure it may seem for a time to follow 
precedent and then suddenly reverse itself. 
A certain man residing in New York city 
went to business daily via the subway. 
Without apparent reason he was one morn- 
ing impelled to go down town on the ele- 
vated railroad. Kjiowing these principles 
he was interested to ascertain, if possible, 
the reason of his impressions, and later 
learned that by taking the elevated line 
he had avoided an unpleasant tie-up in the 
subway. Many of his friends, like pro- 
verbial sheep, had blindly followed habit, 
and had had disagreeable and even hazard- 
ous experiences. Intuition knows no law 
of precedent. 

Most intuitive persons are likewise con- 
scientious, but not always. That is, con- 
science is usually trained and active in the 
intuitive person. With conscience dor- 



62 INTUITION 

mant, however, and the other intellectual 
faculties, especially secretiveness, large 
and acting in combination with acute in- 
tuitive sense, the resulting intelligence is 
of a kind which is a menace to society. If 
this combination be reinforced by educa- 
tion and refinement the person is of the 
criminal type known as ** dangerous. '^ 
Such are only brought to bay by the 
keenly intuitive detective. 

It should be remembered that reason, 
conscience, secretiveness and intuition are 
each separate centers of consciousness or 
mentation. Each is capable of acting with- 
out the other, and herein is a danger with 
persons in all walks of life. The master 
secret of harmony is always balance of 
action, with the highest faculty dominating. 
That the criminal is a criminal is no more 
a matter of chance than that you and I, 
reader, are gifted with a sense of refine- 
ment or a desire to please. 

Mrs. Beck, a woman of the type under 
consideration, is related to certain New 
England families whose members are fa- 
mous in the world of statesmanship and let- 
ters. Nevertheless, for several decades she 



AND CONSCIENCE 63 

led the police of two continents a merry 
chase. So uncanny was her intuitive sense 
that she seemed to know at sight just the 
persons whom she could most successfully 
separate from their money after first win- 
ning their confidence. Her ability to elude 
detectives, and if actually arrested to 
avoid the penitentiary, has been little 
short of marvelous. It is asserted that 
more pages of the police records of New 
York city are devoted to her history than 
to that of any other woman. At present, 
with a mind still keen and active in spite 
of her venerable age, she supports herself 
and blind husband by laundry and other 
menial work. We violate the law of our 
Being at our peril I 

Another instance is that of Mr. Grant, a 
man now in middle life, who is serving 
sentence in a Federal prison for using the 
mails with intent to defraud. Of brilliant 
mentality and extraordinarily creative 
mind, there has yet been lacking on his 
part the moral sense essential to the pro- 
tection of persons doing business with him. 
From 'the Atlantic to the Pacific and in the 



64 INTUITION 

countries of Europe this man has operated 
his get-rich-quick schemes so successfully 
as to enable him to live at a rate estimated 
at fifty thousand dollars a year. So subtle 
is his intuitive sense, disassociated from 
conscience and applied to unlawful ends, 
that for some weeks he made his New York 
headquarters next door to a famous de- 
tective agency in an office building in the 
Wall street region. Meanwhile it was as- 
serted by these detectives that Mr. Grant 
could not possibly be in the United States 
without their knowledge. 

In justice to this man it may be stated 
that he frankly admits there is something 
lacking in his make-up, and this deficiency 
gets him into trouble. He now announces 
his purpose of living an honest and up- 
right life when he is once more a free 
man. Will the world understand that he 
is as truly ill (mentally) as any person 
in a hospital, that he is as truly crippled 
as a man who has lost a leg, and will it 
help him by true education to free himself 
from these handicaps? 

When a man achieves success in any 



AND CONSCIENCE 65 

undertaking it is because he possesses 
sense on that subject. Correspondingly, 
when he fails it is because of lack of sense 
on the subject. 

Has it ever occurred to you, dear reader, 
that a man is a ^^criminaP' because he is 
lacking in sense at just the point at which 
you possess it? How did you, for instance, 
acquire your active and responsive con- 
science? Is it not in part the result of 
training in past states of existence? Hav- 
ing learned to be conscientious in a former 
incarnation, should fheVe be condemnation 
on your part for the man who as yet has 
not so learned? 

It is a well recognized fact that our penal 
institutions do not reform, and that an 
undue proportion of their inmates go out 
into the world only to repeat their mis- 
takes. The remedy is not in punishment 
but in education. Herein is the great 
secret of criminology. The time is coming 
when we shall have institutions which will 
truly educate the criminal at the point at 
which he lacks sense. There are wonder- 
ful faculties of the mind which by civiliza- 



66 INTUITION 

tion's present systems of education remain 
dormant — and for which heavy penalties 
are exacted of civilization. 

Conscience, disassociated from intuition, 
and alone dominating the judgment, pro- 
duces many ridiculous doctrines and ab- 
surd situations, while man's inhumanity to 
man through a relentless conscience has in- 
deed ''made countless thousands mourn.'' 
Volumes might be written on the tyranny 
of the ''New England conscience." Paul 
the Apostle verges on the ascetic when, 
under the spell of a dominating conscience, 
he talks about women being forbidden to 
pray with uncovered heads or to speak in 
meeting. The old "blue laws" of some 
of our early colonies which held that a 
man might not kiss his wife on the Sab- 
bath, and forbade pleasure-riding on that 
day, are instances of the case in hand. 

Conscience, acting by itself, may become 
most harsh and even pitiless. The doc- 
trine that the end Justifies the means is 
founded on conscience disassociated from 
intuition, and has caused the flowing of 
rivers of blood. Conscience loves to lay 



AND CONSCIENCE 67 

down rules of action for others. Intuition 
leaves others as free as the freedom it ex- 
ercises for itself. 

Conscience alone often becomes a hold- 
up. The key is a proper balance between 
conscience and intuition. In normal 
thought processes these two are as insepa- 
rable as the arm and the hand. Neither 
can say to the other, **I have no need of 
thee." Intuition, however, being the 
higher, should dominate. Until it does 
thus dominate spiritual perception is more 
or less dormant. 

The education of conscience is a simple 
mental process, depending largely upon a 
determined attitude of mind. Herein is 
its tendency to develop an abnormal per- 
sonal will. The process of awakening 
intuition, although quite different, is also 
simple — so simple as at times to seem 
elusive. This will be explained in a later 
chapter. 

Conscience is roused by a frequent ask- 
ing of the question. Do you think this is 
right? Thus the mind is challenged to its 
decisions. By persistence conscience learns 
to operate automatically so that normal 



68 INTUITION AND CONSCIENCE 

tliouglit action becomes habitual. Children 
especially are so responsive to this proce- 
dure that usually no other method of cor- 
rection need be resorted to. 

Both reason and intuition irresistibly 
lead to the conclusion that there must be 
that within the mind of man which, without 
self-condemnation or injustice to others, 
will give him freedom and fulness of self- 
expression and make his life one of 
harmony. 



*^What man knoweth the things of a man 
save the spirit of man which is within 
himf — Paul the Apostle. 



CHAPTER IV 

Intuition and Consciousness 

In delving into the realm of the spiritual 
the word consciousness is significant and 
indispensable. We have to do with various 
phases of both individual and collective 
consciousness. 

It is an ancient jest that Boston is not 
a geographical place but a state of mind. 
The suggestion intended, however, applies 
equally to New York, Philadelphia, or 
other cities, namely, that the consciousness 
of a community tends to express itself in 
a certain type individually, and collectively 
through its municipal acts or its state- 
craft. For instance, the collective con- 
sciousness of the German people — their 
virtues, their vices, their sophistry, their 
self-pity, their arrogance — ^is personified 
in the Kaiser, and expresses itself in the 
German effort to dominate the world. The 
collective consciousness of the American 
people in our desire for international 
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72 INTUITION 

justice, peace, and a live-and-let-live atti- 
tude is personified in President Wilson, 
and expresses itself in many ways, notably 
in our international relations. 

The European war may be described as 
a clash between two states of conscious- 
ness, the lower and the higher. One thing, 
however, is important : While it is true that 
the lower can never comprehend the 
higher, the absolute inability of the lower 
to express itself on any plane but its own 
should not be lost sight of. We might as 
well rail at the turtle for not expressing 
a voice like a canary. 

Irrespective of location or environment 
individual consciousness in its various 
phases is often most pronounced. There is 
the poverty consciousness, the conscious- 
ness of riches, the consciousness of sickness 
and the consciousness of triumph. A boy 
attends school and acquires the school con- 
sciousness. Later he comes home from col- 
lege with the college consciousness. Should 
he fall in love it is apparent that he is in 
still another consciousness — and so on in 
successive stages through life. There are 



AND CONSCIOUSNESS 73 

those who seemingly never get out of the 
consciousness that something is about to 
happen to them bodily, or that someone 
is criticising them, or that they must be 
** cumbered with much serving,'' or that 
there is something to fear, or that irre- 
spective of to-day's opportunities for self- 
^ expression they must be strenuous concern- 
ing to-morrow. The thing that makes one 
man a slave and another a master is con- 
sciousness. Yea, more, the thing that 
makes each of us a subject in one thing 
•and a victor in another is consciousness. 
Millions are expressing sex conscious- 
ness and various phases of the personal 
ego. On the other hand certain of the 
world's great ones have had ascribed 
to them cosmic consciousness, notably, 
Buddha, Mohammed and Jesus Christ. 
Cosmic consciousness is practically un- 
known except individually. Perhaps the 
most noteworthy exception to this is the in- 
stance of the Apostles who, after the de- 
parture of the visible Christ, were the 
collective recipients of the consciousness 
of the Holy Spirit, which came **as of a 
rushing mighty wind." Then were they 



74 INTUITION' 

able to heal the sick, cast out devils, raise 
the dead, and preach with mighty power. 
Never again could they be the same as 
before ! 

Man may be likened to a musical chord 
of three notes. Musicians tell us that in 
every such chord there is one note, called 
the dominant note, which in sounding, 
must he made dominant. Should this not 
be so the resulting melody and harmony 
are less than the maximum. Similarly the 
spiritual is the dominant, and if the 
physical or the mental is allowed to be in 
the ascendancy inharmony follows. When 
the spiritual is accorded its rightful domi- 
nance over the physical and mental, how- 
ever, there manifests a maximum of 
harmony in the life. But it should be 
borne in mind that this harmony most 
probably manifests as a consciousness, an 
inner quiet realization of poise, tranquillity 
and power to the individual, and not nec- 
essarily as something showy or impressive 
to others. 

e _____ 

When they sense a thing intuitively 
many persons refer to the knowing con- 



AND CONSCIOUSNESS 75 

sciousness as existing in the region of the 
heart. That there is intelligence in every 
part of the body is generally acknowledged. 
Especially is this true of those regions in 
which gray matter exists identical with that 
of the brain. The most conspicuous exam- 
ple of this is the large nerve center known 
as the solar plexus, which adjoins the heart 
and with which it is closely identified in 
action. 

The organ of the intellect is the brain. 
It is clear that the centre of mentation 
known as reason is in the brain. Phren- 
ology locates two centers of reasoning 
consciousness, Causality (deductive rea- 
son) and Comparison (inductive reason) 
and assigns them both to the region of the 
forehead. But phrenology is uncertain or 
silent as to the location of intuitive menta- 
tion. This is partly because phrenology 
is founded on intellect merely and partly 
because the seat of intuitive consciousness 
is not in the brain but at the solar plexus 
where it may function with love — its twin. 
There is no faculty of the thinking con- 
sciousness which is so tender, solicitous, 
protective and loving as intuition. 



76 INTUITION 

The solar plexus is also the center of 
love mentation. Irrespective of the pos- 
sible phases of intellectual love the only- 
genuine love comes from the region of the 
heart. The heart itself is a mere muscular 
organ, clearly incapable of mentation. Be- 
ing so closely identified with the solar 
plexus the heart responds with exceeding 
sensitiveness to every love note sounded 
by the love center. When a person receives 
news, either good or bad, concerning the 
one most loved the heart responds some- 
times to the point of ceasing to beat, 
temporarily or even permanently. 

It is clear that love that proceeds from 
the head only is not real love. No child 
or woman wants that kind of love. It is 
too cold, too intellectual, too selfish, too 
heady. The mental can never comprehend 
the spiritual, more than the physical can 
comprehend the mental. John, the disciple 
of love, was most intuitive. He it was 
that discriminated between the law con- 
sciousness typified by Moses and the in- 
tuitive consciousness of ** grace and truth" 
that came by Jesus Christ. 

The trial of Jesus was ** under law," the 



AND CONSCIOUSNESS 77 

^* perfection of reason.'' The reasoning 
faculties, sooner or later, invariably at- 
tempt to sit in judgment on the intuitive 
sense. When it finds itself face to face 
with spiritual truth reason always wrig- 
gles, as did Pilate. The feminine side of 
the family, Mrs. Pilate, discerned in ad- 
vance that her husband was likely to do 
something to his discredit and she warned 
him to *'have nothing to do with that just 
man.'' Being dominated by reason only 
he ignored advice from a woman, to his 
everlasting notoriety and shame. 

Crucifixion means hiding. When intui- 
tion is ignored and mere reason prevails 
the higher nature is hidden. The cruci- 
fixion occurred at Golgotha, **the place of 
the skull." Thus we have the meaning of 
the mystical saying, ^^Eeasoning is the 
crucifixion of Jesus Christ," the higher, 
the Eeal Self of us being hidden, ignored, 
crucified, when we permit ourselves to be 
dominated by the reasonings of the head 
in place of the intuitions of the heart. 

Paul, unlike the disciples, was an edu- 
cated man. His trained mind grasped 



78 INTUITION 

truth wholesale — and struck him blind in 
the process. His capacity, receptivity and 
obedience made him the greatest Christian 
that ever lived. The disciples were illit- 
erate men, but possessing the quality of 
true receptivity they had little to unlearn. 
During the three years that they associated 
with the Master their minds were negative 
to his mind. This was the secret of their 
mystic unfoldment. Judas, it is true, be- 
came negative to minds on a lower plane, 
to his undoing. Except on rare occasions, 
however, the disciples were as true as the 
needle to the pole in their receptivity to 
the One Christ Mind. The absolute con- 
sciousness is absolutely negative to God 
only, and absolutely positive to all else. 

On the part of the disciples, with the 
continually increasing consciousness of the 
Marvelous One came ever a mystic humil- 
ity. They seemed gradually to cease to 
live on the relative plane or longer to listen 
to relative ideas and standards, and to be- 
come absorbed into the absolute conscious- 
ness. Their very humility as fishermen 
was a preparation for higher and ever 
higher instruction, with no interposition of 



* AND CONSCIOUSNESS 79 

** personality/* no self -exploitation, none 
of the arrogance of either ignorance or 
intellect. 

The Master did not at once teach them 
all he knew. With divine sagacity from 
time to time he gave them such truth as 
their consciousness was ready for. * * When 
they could bear it,'* he revealed to them 
the mysteries of the universe, culminating 
at the last hours, almost the last moments, 
with the highest, deepest, most potent and 
at the same time simplest teaching that 
it is possible for the human mind to re- 
ceive except from the Spirit itself within. 
Even this he assured them should be theirs 
ere long. 

The world has lost sight of the Master's 
most mystical message, i.e., the power of 
the name, Jesus Christ. Because they had 
no awakened spiritual discernment by 
which they could perceive anything of the 
kind millions have read about it without 
ever perceiving it. How are we to have 
the consciousness to perceive spiritual 
truth if the faculties are dormant by which 
such truth is discernible t 

Not until the close of the Master's visi- 



80 INTUITION 

ble ministry was there any suggestion that 
the disciples understood their scriptures. 
Doubtless they were waiting to understand 
by visible demonstration the nothingness 
of death. Then and not until then was 
their consciousness such that he could 
"open their understanding." Yet for 
about three years they had been in daily 
association with the Master of the Ages, 
and were themselves destined to be re- 
garded as among the world's greatest! 
Was ever situation more paradoxical? 

It has been stated that Jesus Christ 
never gave to the world any mystical 
teachings other than those he had acquired 
from the occult brotherhoods. Even if 
true this is unimportant. What is signifi- 
cant is that, contrary to the custom of 
the secret brotherhoods, he taught, ** There 
is nothing hidden that shall not be re- 
vealed, '* also, *^He that hath ears to hear, 
let him hear.'* No free soul submits to 
being bound to secrecy as to high truth. 
Well did he know that if truth concerning 
spiritual mysteries was blazoned on the 
street corners it would be discerned only 



AND CONSCIOUSNESS 81 

by those spiritually awake, and even 
though misinterpreted by others would 
still be conducive to their ultimate unf old- 
ment. They might read or hear the words, 
but having no spiritual consciousness 
would inject into them a personal in place 
of a spiritual construction. Thus many 
Bible statements have been diverted from 
their true and higher meaning, and most 
religions are an appeal to the mental 
rather than to the spiritual faculties of 
man. 

Every thought has its action and its 
reaction. Spiritual truth is both mystical 
and paradoxical. The reaction from get- 
ting half truths is upon the person who 
gets them, and is proportioned to his un- 
foldment and true needs, always tending 
toward his greater unf oldment. If a man 
outgrows a religious denomination because 
it ceases to feed him spiritually it is no 
reason why that particular teaching was 
not beneficial to him while he was asso- 
ciated with it. Indeed he could not have 
been drawn to it had it not met some need 
of his nature. 
I As has been stated, the lower can never 



82 INTUITION 

comprehend the higher. It may scoff and 
sneer at the higher but as to consciousness 
of it there is none. While the higher may 
comprehend the lower, such comprehension 
justifies no boasting, and to those truly 
spiritual there comes a sense of deep but 
joyous humility. It is also significant that 
**He that is spiritual is judged of no man,'' 
as is so tersely stated by Paul. 

' Bible authors wrote according to their 
individual consciousness. Not until the 
reader identifies himself with the con- 
sciousness that was the writer's when writ- 
ing can he discern the ideas that were in 
the mind of the writer. This is entering 
into oneness with the spirit of David, 
Isaiah, Matthew, John, Paul and the 
others. ^*The letter killeth, the spirit 
giveth life." 

Whatever else the Bible is, it is the 
** spiritual natural history of man," the 
story of the ongoing of the human soul. 
It may be described as the official account 
and description of the various states of 
consciousness from the first Adam to the 



AND CONSCIOUSNESS 83 

''last Adam/* — Jesus Christ — and includ- 
ing various incarnations. 

There are, for instance, those who be- 
lieve that they are forever destined to 
**earn their bread by the sweat of their 
brow." So long as they remain in this 
consciousness they are the living mani- 
festation of it, according to the meta- 
physical law, **As a man thinketh in his 
heart, so is he/* 

The story of Naaman the leper is the 
story of a consciousness which is unwilling 
to receive freedom from bondage through 
doing the simple thing, the thing at hand — 
and also of the beneficent result of an oc- 
casional change of mind. 

The story of Jacob has its psychological 
correspondence in the life of the excep- 
tional man who insists upon having his 
blessing from God and will not take No 
for an answer. Notwithstanding the 
wholesale outpouring of divine opulence in 
response to this consciousness not many 
attempt or find it. Jacob, through his in- 
sistence, was so revolutionized that even 
his name ceased to fit him and he received 



84 INTUITION 

a new one. Sncli a transformation in con- 
sciousness was true of several other Bible 
characters, notably Saul of Tarsus. 

The story of the journeyings of the 
Israelites has its counterpart to-day in the 
minds of millions who are wandering in 
religious consciousness, ** under law," 
without spiritual center, standards, or 
balance. 

The story of Job symbolizes the inflexi- 
ble consciousness of a man, who because 
of it, finds deliverance from many afflic- 
tions to the point where he *^has twice as 
much as he had before.'^ Few there be 
with the spiritual stability to take and to 
mantain Job's stand, — ** Though he slay 
me yet will I trust in him." 

To the still rarer few comes the con- 
sciousness of Peter, which, in answer to 
the climax of subtle questions, **'Whom say 
ye that I ami" replies promptly, posi- 
tively, and with crystal-clear discernment, 
*'Thou art the Christ, the son of the living 
God." The Jacobs, the Jobs, and the 
Peters may be rare but they are the ones 
who find within the rock consciousness 
upon which a superstructure of spiritual 



AND CONSCIOUSNESS 85 

power and efficiency may be builded. 
Their discernment is not by means of rea- 
son, nor through ^* flesh and blood," but 
through **my Father which is in heaven." 
The kingdom of God, remember, is within. 
Some even taste the Christ conscious- 
ness! Verily these can say, **I AM the 
way, the truth and the life," **A11 power 
is given unto me," **I and my Father are 
one." Cosmic consciousness indeed! 

The feature of the Old that distinguishes 
it in marked contrast with the New Testa- 
ment is embodied in the word law. The 
feature of the consciousness of religious 
persons who have not yet entered into the 
spirit of the New Testament, however 
much they have of its letter, is law. The 
reason why people everywhere are seeking 
a spiritual interpretation of the times, and 
why the religions of the day seem so inade- 
quate to meet the world ^s hunger for 
spiritual food, is that we have sought too 
much the form, the letter and the law of 
High Truth. ' ' The letter killeth, the spirit 
giveth life. ' * 

Now law as the term is commonly used 



86 INTUITION 

r 

is harsK, cold, inflexible, mechanical, unin- 
spirational, disappointing and inadequate. 
Because they have not outgrown the law 
consciousness there are persons a-plenty 
who find their religion possessing all these 
attributes. Doubtless law possesses them 
for the reason that we, having saturated 
our consciousness with them, shall seek for 
something better. Both reason and intui- 
tion lead to the irresistible conclusion that 
it would be a strange god who had nothing 
better for us than some of the manifesta- 
tions of law and justice we have known. 
Moses, the law-giver, was the greatest 
Bible character save one. He was a singu- 
lar combination of murderer, legislator, 
general and meek man. For about a 
century he was more receptive to the 
Divine Idea than anyone else. His legis- 
lative edicts were epitomized in the ten 
commandments, which are the embodiment 
of law. Law and edicts are indispensable 
to the mind dominated by no higher facul- 
ties than reason and conscience, though 
they be the high attributes of the mental 
plane. Their joint product is inevitably 
law. Early in liis course the young law 



AND CONSCIOUSNESS 87 

student is told that law is the ** perfection 
of reason.'* The judicial department of 
our government, wonderful as it is and 
indispensable as it may be for to-day's 
civilization, is ponderous, dilatory, exact- 
ing, disappointing and expensive. We also 
have costly legislatures constantly revising 
our laws, ^'ever coming but never arriv- 
ing,*' eternally evolving more complica- 
tions for the courts. All these are mani- 
festations of our collective law conscious- 
ness. 

However admirable in its way is the in- 
tellect that reasons unerringly from cause 
to effect, the possessor of such ofttimes 
lives a narrow existence, is unmagnetic 
and uninspirational, and is cold, inflexible, 
heavy and mechanical in his thought 
processes. To dwell permanently in the 
law consciousness is to be in bondage. 
Such a consciousness may be a necessity 
in our ongoing but of itself is not a finality y 
though to many this is not apparent. Such 
are like the slave who was told that slavery 
had been abolished and he was free. There 
being a total absence of anything in his 
consciousness responding to this idea he 



88 INTUITION 

said, *^No, I belong to Massa George." 
There are those, however, who are strug- 
gling earnestly for freedom. Once per- 
ceive an idea on the higher plane and it 
is like a light that at first is dimly seen, 
but bye-and-bye it illumines the whole 
heavens. Then we wonder why we were 
so long in finding it. 

The law consciousness is epitomized 
in the statement, *^ Whatsoever a man sow- 
eth, that shall he also reap." It is a 
consciousness in which ^^By the sweat of 
thy brow thou shalt earn thy bread." It 
is the consciousness of ' ' an eye for an eye, 
a tooth for a tooth, a life for a life." 

However essential is the law to those 
who, as Paul says, are *^ under it," there 
are countless people who are honest not 
because there is a law against dishonesty, 
virtuous not because there is a law against 
adultery, or who refrain from stealing not 
because there is a law against larceny with 
penalties thereto. These often have a con- 
viction mthin that there is a higher realm 
of existence than that dominated by * ^ Thou 
shalt not." Millions are there who are 



AND CONSCIOUSNESS 89 

outgrowing the necessity for law as such, 
especially the laws of their own making. 

They perceive that there is an individual 
realm transcending the law consciousness 
and that it is the realm of the Eeal Self, 
which is perfect and cannot degenerate. 
Whatever else it is about man that *^ de- 
generates,'' it is not the soul. They per- 
ceive that the soul itself is God, and cannot 
**sin.'* They perceive that they are en- 
titled to be free from law and its conse- 
quent poverty, sin, sickness, and ultimate 
death. They perceive that in the (higher) 
law of their own Being is a pathway to- 
ward emancipation and freedom. 

That pathway is intuition and is **so 
plain that the wayfaring man, though a 
fool, need not err therein. " 



**Sin shall not have dominion over you 
for ye are not under the law, but under 
grace." — Paul the Apostle. 



CHAPTER y 

Intuition and Geace 

Higher laws transcend lower laws, i.e., 
they submerge or render them powerless. 
Herein is the secret of unfoldment. 

Thomas Troward indirectly refers to 
this principle in citing the law of flotation : 
Iron, ordinarily, sinks in water. Yet if it 
be fashioned in the form of a boat it floats, 
and the law of flotation thus overcomes or 
transcends the law of sinking, while the 
iron, except in form, remains the same. 

There is, as we have seen, a physical 
realm of consciousness. Through what he 
is pleased to call education man awakens 
from it to a realization of the higher 
mental realm, and thereby overcomes or 
transcends countless limitations of the 
physical plane. Later he awakens to a 
realization of the spiritual realm and its 
laws and their power to neutralize or 
transcend other laws, not only of the 

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94 INTUITION 

physical, but of the mental realm as well. 
In this process, which is the cultivation 
of intuitive discernment, he learns on the 
one hand the nothingness of that which he 
had hitherto considered to be something, 
i.e., lack, failure, sin, sickness, and ulti- 
mately death, the ^4ast enemy^'; on the 
other hand he learns the allness of God. 
Numerous incarnations may be required to 
accomplish this, but with God time is not 
— ^all is the Eternal Now, 

The pathway of coming ** under grace ^^ 
is via intuition. By means of it man-made 
laws, one by one, become as though they 
were not, just as the child when he became 
a man simply ^*put away childish things. *' 

Through intuition we perceive the truth 
of Thomas Troward^s assertion that it is 
equally wrong to say that there is or is not 
a devil, and likewise that it is equally 
wrong to say that there is or is not such 
a thing as sin. 

For us to cease to ascribe power to sin 
is to come into the consciousness in which 
sin ** shall not have dominion over us,*' 
and therefore to cease from sin because 



AND GRACE 95 

we see the nothingness of it. Paul voices 
this idea when he says, **What then? shall 
we sin because we are not under the law, 
but under grace? God forbid/' The man 
who sins does so because of a belief, con- 
scious or unconscious, that there is power 
in sin. To perceive intuitively the absolute 
nothingness of sin is to be absolutely free 
from sin and its results, and therefore from 
all karma. Our freedom from the conse- 
quences of sin is inversely proportional to 
our belief in its power. 

Under grace we perceive why Moses, a 
murderer, was not called to account by the 
Lord for his crime, but became a great 
leader, and the world's lawgiver for all 
time. 

By means of intuition we perceive why 
Elijah the Tishbite received no condemna- 
tion for the killing of the prophets of Baal. 

Under grace we perceive why Saul of 
Tarsus, who was particeps criminis in the 
murder of Stephen, was not punished for 
it by the Lord but became the greatest 
Christian that ever lived, with a conscious- 
ness so changed that he had even to be 
given a new name. 



96 INTUITION 

Under law an attempt is made to 
** judge'' and measure crime and make the 
punishment fit it. By intuition we per- 
ceive that no such idea exists in the Divine 
Mind. How can it if *^ God's eyes are too 
pure to behold iniquity?" 

Through intuition we perceive why 
Jesus Christ said to the woman taken in 
adultery, *^ Neither do I condemn thee." 

Under grace — a gift — we perceive that 
we receive nothing from Spirit because we 
have earned or deserved it, any more than 
we enjoy the rain or the sunshine because 
we have earned them. We perceive that 
we receive only because we know how to 
take; **Whatsover things ye desire when 
ye pray, believe that ye have them." 
Jesus Christ had this perception in such 
measure that he helped himself to whatever 
he required, and no man said nay. There 
are those under law who wish to receive 
nothing they do not pay for. And alas! 
there are those who wish to pay as little 
as possible for what they receive. Simon 
the Sorcerer tried to bargain for the con- 
sciousness of the Holy Spirit, and came 
'^near losing his life in the process. It could 



AND GRACE 97 

only be bestowed upon him if he knew how 
to take it. 

Under grace we discern what Jesus 
Christ meant when he disposed of the ques- 
tion of a measured forgiveness by the re- 
ductio-ad-absurdum process in saying we 
were to forgive ** seventy-times-seven," 
and thus put away the thing forgiven as 
far **as the east is from the west." We 
perceive that every man is forgiven when 
he sees that there is nothing to forgive, 
in accordance with the mathematical 
formula of the Lord's Prayer. The better 
translation is declarative, or even impera- 
tive; ** Forgive us our debts as we for- 
give/' SL matter of precise ratio. Reason 
laboriously echoes, Of course. 

In the grace consciousness we perceive 
why Jesus Christ did not heap anathemas 
upon those who arrested him, or upon 
Judas the betrayer, or upon those who 
went through the farce of a trial under 
law, or who instigated the crime in the 
beginning, and how he could say of all 
who participated in the assassination, 
** Father, forgive them, they know not what 
they do." Why not if he perceived the 



98 INTUITION 

nothingness of death, and that what they 
were doing was truth to themi 

There are those who have a perception 
that there is a realm within, a reahn of 
tranquillity, poise and power, ** where 
dwells the soul serene,'' a realm from 
which one may draw endlessly for health, 
joy, necessary supply, adequacy of all good, 
a realm in which there is no inclination or 
thought of violating law, not because law 
exists, or does not exist, but because self- 
expression is found to be positive, not nega- 
tive, and to consist of being in accordance 
with Being. If perceived at all, this realm 
is perceived intuitively, **IIe that hath ears 
to hear, let him hear." 

' Jesus Christ was not merely the promul- 
gator of the law of love, he was the per- 
sonification thereof. He had little to say 
as to what might not be done. His mes- 
sage was eternally. Yea and Amen. His 
teaching was perpetually the incarnation 
of the ** first and great commandment." 
He drove it home by saying, **A new 
commandment I give unto you, that ye 
love one another." How could people lovQ 



AND GRACE 99 

God with all their heart, soul, strength 
and mind without loving the Real Self, the 
God of each other? 

The Mosaic commandments were nega- 
tive, prohibitory. The Israelites actually 
had the positive spiritual commandment of 
love but their consciousness was ready for 
prohibitory forms of law only. The thing 
that takes us out of the old and puts us 
into the new ** dispensation" is the per- 
ception of coming out from under law. 
It is present perception in place of former 
reason. This is the true forgiveness, i.e., 
a giving for, a substitution. 

Strange as it may seem, prostitution and 
forgiveness are the antithesis of each 
other. Prostitution is the substitution of 
a lower for a higher in consciousness. 
When the counterfeiter uses his God-given 
skill for the purpose of engraving a spuri- 
ous note he is prostituting his abilities by 
a substitution of the lower use for the 
higher. Prostitution is followed by de- 
pression and ultimate degeneracy. 

Forgiveness is the substitution of the 
higher (the spiritual) for the lower in 
consciousness. It is inevitably followed 



100 INTUITION 

by joy and exaltation. Isaiah in his per- 
ception of the kingdom of God within, says 
most wonderfully, 

*^ Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir 
tree, and instead of the briar shall come up the 
myrtle tree . . . and it shall be an everlasting 
sign that shall not be cut off. ..." 

**To give them beauty for ashes, the oil of 
joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the 
spirit of heaviness. ..." 

''Thou shalt no more be termed Forsaken; 
neither shall thy land (consciousness) be termed 
Desolate; but thou shalt be called Hephzibah, 
and thy land Beulah; for the Lord delighteth 
in thee, and thy land shall be married, ... as 
the bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride, so shall 
thy God rejoice over thee." 

Hephzibah means delight Beulah 
means married. That is, in place of the 
feeling of desolation, of being forsaken, 
separated from Spirit, we are to come into 
the consciousness of being one with — 
'^married'' to — the Universal Being of 
Truth, Love, and Life. 

The prophet Joel, speaking perhaps 
more mystically but no less significantly, 
says: 

''7 will restore to you the years that the locust 



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hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpillar, 
and the palmerworm. . . . 

"And ye shall eat in plenty and be satisfied, 
and praise the name of the Lord your God, that 
hath dealt wondrously with you ; and my people 
shall never be ashamed.'' 

It was this realm that was referred to 
by the intuitive disciple when he said, * ^ The 
law was given by Moses, but grace and 
truth came by Jesus Christ," words among 
the most scientific, significant, loving and 
majestic ever written. 

Law says, **By the sweat of thy brow 
thou shalt earn thy bread." Grace says, 
**Take no thought what ye shall eat and 
what ye shall drink," ** Labor not," ** Con- 
sider how the lilies grow." 

Law says, **Flee from the wrath to 
come." Grace says, *' Sufficient unto the 
day is the evil thereof." 

Law says, ^*Man was made for the sab- 
bath." Grace says, **The sabbath was 
made for man." 

Law says, **An eye for an eye, a tooth 
for a tooth, a life for a life." Grace says, 
**Love your enemies." 



102 INTUITION 

Paul the Apostle is recorded as having 
a ** thorn in the flesh." There is no clue 
as to the nature of his affliction, but we 
are told that three times he prayed to God 
that he might be delivered from it. The 
answer was mystical, **My grace is suffi- 
cient for thee." So absolute became his 
consciousness of its nothingness that he 
then says he takes pleasure in infirmities 
and distresses, for his ** strength is made 
perfect in weakness." The triumphs of 
grace are revolutionary indeed! 

The realm of grace, the Jesus-Christ 
reahn, is an unreasoning realm, and to the 
rational mind, is unreasonable and un- 
accountable. It is the realm of quick 
recovery from bodily ailments and of in- 
stantaneous demonstrations of every kind. 
The greater our unf oldment on this plane, 
the more prompt our manifestations. It 
is the realm of good that knows no op- 
posite. It is the realm in which there is a 
giving of that which is seemingly unde- 
served, the realm of something for nothing, 
of reaping where we have sowed not. It 
is the realm in which we discover that 
absolute success is the law of our Being. 



AND GRACE 103 

It is the miracle-working realm, and the 
realm in which we begin to see God * * as he 
is.'' 

The realms of intuition, grace, forgive- 
ness and love are identical. The father of 
the prodigal son, when called to account by 
the elder brother, makes no excuses, gives 
no reasons, says nothing in self-extenua- 
tion, puts up no defense. Truth needs no 
defense. In quiet, simple majesty, con- 
scious of the invincibility of love, he says, 
in substance, **This is my son. He was 
lost to be sure, but now he is found; he 
was dead, and now he is alive. But good, 
bad, or indifferent, henceforth, now and 
forever, this is my son." Such is the 
quality of Eternal Fatherhood! 

The realm of grace and truth is for those 
who perceive it. It is the realm in which 
the higher law of intuition is substituted 
in consciousness for the lower law of rea- 
son. Jesus Christ said, ^*I came not to 
destroy the law, but to fulfill it." The 
realm of grace is the realm of love which 
is the ^* fulfilling of the law,'* perceived by 
those who cease to permit reason to 



104 ^INTUITION 

dominate and let Spirit speak throngh 
them. **Why reason ye among your- 
selves?" 

Because grace is the reahn of the abso- 
lute it is the realm of no forgiveness and 
no unforgiveness. A mystical realm, you 
say. Yes, but when we perceive the truth 
as to any mystery, the mystery ceases. 
Like prayer, this realm is **not the over- 
coming of God's reluctance, but the laying 
hold of his willingness. *' It is we that 
must change. ^*I AM the Lord, I change 
not.'' 

^'What is truth?" asked Pontius Pilate, 
reasoning as becomes a capable judge. 
Jesus, perceiving that Pilate lacks the con- 
sciousness to discern truth, vouchsafes no 
reply. Intuition has nothing to give to 
reason in extenuation or explanation of 
itself. 

Truth is that which is, as distinguished 
from that which is not. But God is 
actually all that is. ^*I AM the first and 
the last, the beginning and the end." 
Therefore Truth is God. 

It is we who must awaken to the con- 
sciousness of that which is. 



AND GRACE 105 

Every scientist knows that air rushes 
into a vacuum with great power. That 
'^Nature abhors a vacuum '^ is a trite say- 
ing. When the presence of the Master 
had visibly ceased among his disciples 
they experienced a discontinuity in con- 
sciousness which may be likened to a 
vacuum. Also burning within their hearts 
were those final pregnant words of the 
Master. Receptivity was then the domi- 
nant note of their consciousness, both by 
training and inclination. They were in- 
spired by no other desire than to be 
obedient to their highest intuitions. The 
last mystic command had been, ** Tarry at 
Jerusalem. ' ' ( Jerusalem means, the Self. ) 
They had erased ^^personality'' — the un- 
real self — so absolutely that they had be- 
come the living embodiment of desire to 
obey. They were empty of every other 
interfering inclination, and so they tarried, 
six weeks, in **an upper chamber'' — ^high 
consciousness. Who can paint the word- 
picture of those days as they lengthened 
into weeks and nothing unusual occurred? 
They were unreasoning and patient weeks, 
but never unhappy, complaining or burden- 



106 INTUITION AND GRACE 

some. And at last the coming of the Holy- 
Spirit ^^as of a rushing mighty wind!** 
Even in the spiritual realm is a vacuum 
*^ abhorred." Absolute emptiness and per- 
fect receptivity had compelled the coming 
of the Promised One and the infilling of 
their consciousness. 



**I don't care a fig what you think about 
the future. My duty is with this life. The 
future will be all right if you obey the 
voice that is within.'' — Andrew Carnegie^ 



CHAPTER VI 

Attainment theough Intuition 

The Supreme law of intuition is that 
it must dominate. 

Correspondingly the supreme response 
is obedience. 

Intuition is cultivated in various ways: 
By associating with persons who are in- 
tuitive, by reading this book, by studying 
the laws of intuition, and by the applica- 
tion thereof. The crowning law of every 
faculty is use. 

We can never learn to be intuitive by 
denying intuition. Denial consists not 
merely in direct repudiation of the in- 
tuitive sense, but in disobedience thereto 
by ignoring it. There is no faculty of the 
mind that is not dwarfed by disuse. The 
principle involved is as simple as in the 
♦case of a man who should walk in front 
of an approaching locomotive with closed 
eyes. He would do so at his peril. 

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110 ATTAINMENT THROUGH ^ 

As with other spiritual faculties the 
cultivation of intuition is simple. Its laws 
are so simple and so subtle as sometimes 
to seem elusive. The key lies in three 
words: Recognition, acknowledgment, ap- 
propriation. 

If you in no way deny the subtle sense 
but affirm that it is within you, and if you 
are still, you are already intuitive. Persist 
and you will know the true solution of 
your problem. To accomplish anything 
intuitively we are not instructed to be 
noisy, or clamorous, or strenuous, but to 
he stilL 

''Be still.'' 

**Be still and know.'' 
\ ''Be still and know that I AM," 

"Be still and know that I AM God." 

Be still and know that the I AM — the 
heart of your heart, the soul of your soul, 
the being of your Being, the ego of you, the 
very Self of you — is God, and possesses 
the attributes of God as truly as the drop 
of sea-water possesses the attributes of. 
the ocean. 

Among those attributes is omniscience — 
all-knowing. Whether you be saint or sin- 



INTUITION 111 

ner, angel or devil, clergyman or thief, 
within the Self of you is that all-perceiving 
attribute of God, for God is no respecter 
of persons. His spiritual resources are 
just as truly capable of appropriation 
through right application of spiritual laws 
as a **bad'' man is capable of closing the 
switch and turning on the electric light. 
The question of ** goodness'' or '^badness" 
does not enter into the situation in any 
instance. When religion becomes a busi- 
ness it has its trade secrets. Herein is 
one of them exposed. | 

If a good man violates the laws of elec- 
tricity in the construction of his dynamo, 
slectricity will refuse to operate for him 
just as readily as it would if he were bad; 
The only point in any case is to ascertain 
the laws and apply them. * * The sun shines 
on the just and on the unjust." ^ 

**They that do the will shall know the 
doctrine.'' Obedience to intuition is ** do- 
ing the will." Spiritually all things must 
be done in a divine order. Knowledge is 
not promised before — ^but only after 
obedience. **To them that overcome, 
power is given." > 



112 ATTAINMENT THROUGH 

Fear is negative, is neither creative nor 
constructive, and should never be a dom- 
inating motive for anything. Caution, 
reason and conscience are good servants, 
but bad masters. Intuition is a perfect 
master, but never a servant — and yet the 
most perfect servant, just as truly as that 
electricity is a bad master but a wonderful 
servant. ^'Let him that is greatest among 
you be your servant." Did not the peer- 
less, immaculate Jesus wash the feet of 
his disciples? 

If you attempt to use intuition to the 
injury of your neighbor, or for your own 
benefit at the expense of someone else, or 
to accomplish things which you absolutely 
know to be wrong, unjust, or dishonest — 
then you may expect reactions. Every 
thought has two e:ffects — action and reac- 
tion. There are no unpleasant reactions 
from thoughts of love, gentleness, justice, 
meekness — the fruits of Spirit. 

Obedience is stillness, receptivity, con- 
centration, attention, recognition, acknowl- 
edgment, appropriation. 

There are certain religious denomina- 



INTUITION 113 

tions that require abject obedience on tbe 
part of their followers. It being a spirit- 
ual principle many natures thereby make 
a maximum of progress, even though the 
religion they receive is largely conven- 
tional and ready-made. The apt pupils 
through learning obedience thus become 
ready for still higher spiritual principles, 
and eventually outgrow their denomina- 
tional affiliations. This is partly what is 
the matter with the churches. Funda- 
mentally there is but one religion — the re- 
ligion of Spirit. If the churches could 
eliminate fear and would see their doctrine 
as it actually is — a process of education 
and not a finality — they would speed the 
graduate as truly as they now welcome the 
initiate, thus keeping the membership 
channel, so to speak, open and free. Con- 
demnation of the member who because he 
has learned to think for himself has 
thereby learned to disagree with its tenets 
and dogmas has never permanently helped 
any religious denomination. Only truth 
can keep any religious body alive and if 
the follower loses the truth by discon- 
tinuing his membership, so much the worse 



114 ATTAINMENT THROUGH 

for him. Through an open mind and 
the perception that God is no respecter 
of persons, here and there a member 
awakens intuitively to the realization that 
he is entitled to receive leadership and 
inspiration from the One Source. There 
is no special law for anybody. Lest 
they undermine their own living, however, 
few religionists teach anything of the kind. 
Nevertheless, the highest form of religion 
is that which instructs the initiate how to 
find the Christ of himself and rely abso- 
lutely upon it, and then says. Hands off. 
The expression of the Divine in us requires 
that we surrender personal opinions for 
the Universal Perfect Idea. The ability 
to stand to our intuitive leadings, irre- 
spective of all the world if necessary, de- 
cides the matter of our ongoing. 

If personal will has been dominant for 
a long time it may at first seem difficult to 
listen to intuition. Eemember, however, 
that anybody can do easy things. To learn 
to discriminate between intuition and rea- 
son is one of Deity's most imperative 
requirements, and may be the very thing 



INTUITION 115 

to lead you out of your bondage. To do 
this the will is not to be broken, but disci- 
plined. Your health and affairs may 
express lack of discrimination. They pos- 
sibly shriek it to all the world — and all 
the world is cognizant of it except you. 

Even in the midst of a busy day if you 
will take time to relax and sit quietly for 
five minutes, desiring to get your message, 
you will get it. Daily periods of silence 
at a time and place free from the dis- 
cordant vibrations of other minds are in- 
dispensable to the earnest seeker. 

Do not assume that the answer to your 
intuitive call is to be made manifest in 
that which is noisy or spectacular. This 
was the mistake of Naaman the leper, 
whose preliminary message came to him 
through the simple instrumentality of a 
little girl. Spiritual truth disenchants us 
and one of its revealings is that Spirit 
wastes no energy in transmitting to us our 
healing messages, in spite of any false no- 
tions we may have of our own importance. 
The responsibility is upon us of being in 
good receiving condition. The intuitive 
message is invariably simple and is simply 



116 ATTAINMENT THROUGH 

transmitted. Thus it may be easily over- 
looked. The direction usually is to do 
some simple thing, which thing is never an 
impossibility but is the thing at hand. 

''In our search for the hidden wisdom let us 
study the case of Elijah at Horeb, who repre- 
sents to us the method of acquiring spiritual 
truth practiced by the greater Hebrew prophets. 
When the great wind rent the mountain and 
broke the rocks in pieces before Elijah he could 
not see God in the wind, nor in the earthquake 
which followed the wind, nor in the fire that 
followed the earthquake. These were only 
effects of the divine presence in Nature. But 
after the fire there came a 'still, small voice.' "^ 

When the prophet heard that he wrapped 
his face in his mantle and went to the 
mouth of the cave, that is, he turned his 
inner consciousness toward the spiritual 
light, that he might in silence receive the 
message from within. 

The determination to have these periods 
of silence and to overcome all obstacles 
that seem to stand in the way may be the 
key to your progress. You should not, 
however, let your inability to be alone pre- 

1 From "Esoteric Christianity," by W. T. Evans. 



INTUITION 117 

vent your seeking the Regnant Messenger 
within at frequent intervals during your 
waking hours. This constant looking 
within for leadership and inspiration is 
true ^ Spraying without ceasing.'' 

* ' This turning the receptive side of our mental 
nature towards the world of light is, in reality, 
the highest and most effectual form of prayer. 
The passive soul, with voiceless longing and in 
tranquil waiting, stands in silence as flowers 
turn toward the sun to receive its vivifying light 
and heat. A desire for spiritual knowledge for 
the sake of some beneficent use constitutes an 
affinitive attraction for it as certainly as a fad- 
ing flower attracts the dew of heaven."^ 

There is no instant in your life when in- 
tuition is not at your service, waiting to 
give you the benefit of its knoAving. It is 
possible to get in touch with it while cross- 
ing a crowded thoroughfare, or while turn- 
ing your head on the pillow at night. Its 
message is a *^ continuous performance." 
Concerning every question within the mind 
it always speaks, but if we have neglected 
it hitherto it is as if it did not speak, be- 
cause our spiritual ears are dulled. The 

1 From "Esoteric Christianity," by W. T. Evans. 



118 ATTAINMENT THROUGH 

more we listen, the more sensitive we 
become to its leadings. The stiller we are 
interiorly, the more positive its directions. 
Spiritual messages are always and only 
for those who *^have ears to hear.'' In- 
tuition is in truth the voice of the Soul, 
the voice of Love, and the voice of God — 
which are identical. 

**In the Silence characters are formed and 
developed. 

**In the Silence geniuses are born. 

*'In the Silence great truths shall come to 
thee, and thy soul be blessed with the rich in- 
crease of celestial knowledge. 

'*In the Silence all perplexities shall vanish 
all troubles shall cease, all sorrow be assuaged. 

**In the Silence the clouds shall hft, and the 
light that is ineffable encompass tHy soul. 

"Into the Silence and commune with Self; 
find there thy mission in the world.'' ^ 

The cultivation of intuition is helped by 
the use of simple formulas such as the 
following : 

There is that in me which Jcnows. 

The Omnipresent Spirit of Wisdom con- 
stantly goes before me and makes easy the 
way, 

n, 1 "Wisdom of the Ages." 



INTUITION , 119 

^^ Sufficient unto the day is the evil 
thereof.' ' ^: 

^^Now is the day of my salvation/' ■ 

The Spirit of Truth guides me into all 
truth, 

I now await my Divine message, I AM 
still, that I may know, 

I AM now identified with the Divine 
Idea of perfection. I AM ^^ under grace 
and not under law.'' 

I AM in absolute harmony with the law 
of my Being. 

The Universal Spirit within me is In- 
finite Wisdom; I know just what to do. 
There is no lack and no failure. 

Nothing stands between me and my own. 

Some one says, ^^But I never use de- 
nials." Such perceive not that their very 
statement is a most sweeping denial. Had 
our thought processes always been perfect 
in accordance with divine standards there 
would be no need of denials. Every 
erasure of false or erroneous ideas from 
the mind is a denial. Did not Jesus Christ 
himself say to the reasonings of the ra- 
tional mind, **Get thee behind me?" The 
man who turns to the right after having 



120 ATTAINMENT THROUGH 

contemplated going to the left, has denied 
the left. If asked if you will have tea or 
coffee and you answer, **Tea," you have 
denied the coffee. The important ques- 
tion is, **How shall we deny and af- 
firm intelligently and in accordance with 
spiritual laws? It is for you, dear reader 
— the Eeal Self of you — to select what 
ideas your thinker is to entertain and dwell 
upon, and thus bring into visible mani- 
festation. 

The Real Self is never fearful, vacil- 
lating, resistant, proud, timid, jealous or 
self-pitying. We cannot imagine God as 
being these. God being all faith, stability, 
health, prosperity, love, joy, beauty and 
life, the Real Self of us, which is God, is 
these. That which appears to be the re- 
mainder of us is ** personality" — the un- 
real self. This is not to be resisted or 
combated but simply ignored — denied — 
until its nothingness becomes apparent. 
It is the office of intuition to discriminate 
between the unreal and the Real Self. 

All our faculties are God-given, and are 
to be redeemed, that is, they are to be 



INTUITION 121 

spiritualized. They are to be taken from 
the dominion of personal will and identified 
with the Divine will, taken from the dom- 
ination of the physical and mental planes 
and made subordinate to the spiritual 
nature. Intuition, reason, conscience and 
caution must all be tied to the higher will, 
and be made each to take its rightful place, 
either of domination or subordination, as 
the case may be. There is perhaps no 
human analogy, but the process may be 
said to be symbolized by a territory ask- 
ing admission to the family of states. It 
relinquishes some of its identity, to be 
sure, but by becoming an integral part of 
the whole United States it gains far more 
than it relinquishes. 

The real redemption is not to be accom- 
plished by walking on golden streets, pass- 
ing through pearly gates, or playing on 
silver harps in some post mortem period 
of ** salvation." The real salvation lies in 
illuminating all our faculties spiritually, 
which is done by discerning truth. It is 
knowledge of truth only which * * shall make 
us free." The only heaven is the one we 
attain by unfolding to the consciousness 



122 ATTAINMENT THROUGH 

of it, and its doors ^*open inwardly." 
Jesus Christ made this clear when he sai(?, 
*^The kingdom of God IS" — not to he, not 
bye and bye, not after death — but is within 
now. "We possess only as much of it as 
we come into a consciousness of. Denial 
that it now is is a sure way to shut out 
its present realization. **This is life 
eternal, to know TJiee'^ (present tense). 
How are we going to know God and Jesus 
Christ except by means of those faculties 
capable of discerning spiritual truth? 
*^ Flesh and blood cannot enter the king- 
dom." That is, heaven is not discerned by 
expression on the lower planes. ** Spiritual 
truth is spiritually discerned." 

You may not at once know all the steps 
included in the solution of your problem. 
Intuition will usually tell you the next step 
only. It withholds the following step until 
you have in faith taken the first. It re- 
quires will to do the thing to-day that ought 
to be done to-day. Thus, ^^Now is the day 
of your salvation." 
I 

' Concerning any given problem or situa- 
tion there is but one solution in the Divine 



INTUITION 123 

Mind — the Divine Idea. Our ideas are im- 
perfect ; the divine idea is always perfect. 

Assuming that the question is as to my 
going to Atlantic City, there cannot be in 
the Divine Mind the idea that I shall at 
the same time both go and not go. The 
One Universal Mind cannot be at variance 
with itself. If I am to be guided by in- 
tuition I must not merely be willing but I 
must wish to know which it is, and must 
desire this sincerely, conclusively, and irre- 
spective of the opinions of others. When 
it is made apparent I must be obedient, 
otherwise I am simply dallying with in- 
tuition and thereby risking my future per- 
ception of its leadings. i 

Spiritual laws are the incarnation of love 
yet they are stern, and attainment is re- 
served for those who are sincere. The 
spiritual pathway is not a diversion, nor 
a pilgrimage in search of novelty. There 
is no attainment through mere curiosity, 
with the idea of accepting or rejecting the 
dictum of intuition at our pleasure. This 
would be a prostitution of the highest in 
us. Thus there would be a ** house divided 
against itself,'' leading only to confusion. 



124 ATTAINMENT THROUGH 

There should be a suspension of per- 
sonal will. The fact that I do or do not 
wish to go should for the moment be held 
in abeyance. The desire to go may on the 
one hand be so identified with personal will 
as to over-ride all intuitive leadings. On 
the , other hand it may be the voice of 
intuition impelling me to go, my only hesi- 
tation then being because of conscience or 
fear, or both. 

No hard or fast rule can be laid down 
for all cases. There are times when, de- 
siring to go to Atlantic City and knowing 
no reason to the contrary it is well to as- 
sume that the very desire is intuitive and 
to be obeyed. If there be an entire readi- 
ness to be shown to the contrary it will 
often turn out under these conditions that 
to go is the way of faith. Because faith is 
creative it is always handsomely rewarded. 

It is sometimes helpful to demand to 
know conclusively what to do. One way 
to accomplish this is for me to assume that 
I will remain where I am until conclusively 
shown to the contrary, an attitude which 
has solved many problems for many 



INTUITION 125 

people. This brings the will into play and 
helps to maintain a positive attitude of 
mind. Concerning to-day's responsibili- 
ties, the quiet acceptance of them as all 
good, amid to-day's environment, and as- 
sumption that as soon as necessary we 
shall know intuitively and conclusively of 
any requisite change, is one of the surest 
ways of intuitive unf oldment. There is no 
**rule of thumb'' by which we may of a 
certainty detect the voice of intuition. It 
is a knowing. 

Among those ** negative in conscious- 
ness" are persons habitually apologetic or 
frequently asking advice. Such for the 
time being have lost their intuitive lead- 
ings. This may occur through personal 
will or excessive reasoning, or both. Thus 
do many men ^4ose their grip." Bodily 
weakness or financial reverses are among 
the outward manifestations of such states 
of consciousness. 

The negative mind is negative where it 
should be positive, and positive where it 
should be negative. It is timid, appre- 



126 ATTAINMENT THROUGH 



hensive, vacillating, and imagines impend- 
ing calamities. The negative mind sees 
the problem as a mountain. By resolutely 
summoning all our reserve forces to the 
attack, however, lo! it is only a mole-hill. 
The problem in fact may not have dimin- 
ished in size. It is we that must change 
in consciousness through becoming positive 
in place of being negative. 

The anvil, though scarcely more than a 
mass of iron, is negative to the hammer. 
The hammer, though relatively small, is of 
tempered steel, and is positive to the anvil. 
It strikes tlie blows. 

No problem is given us but there is that 
within us which is greater than it. No 
problem is given us but has a spiritual 
solution. 

No progress in consciousness is made by 
trying to analyze or find the source of 
*^sin." Sin is ^^ whatsoever is not of 
faith.'' Why search for that which is not? 
Faith is the only creative power. 

Like the chain that parts at the weakest 
link, each of us has his troubles at the 
point where he is most negative — and 



INTUITION 127 

everyone is negative at some point. Also 
with regard to some one point everyone 
fluctuates, being negative to-day and posi- 
tive to-morrow. It is at just these points 
that intuition is faithfully seeking to help 
and is ready to be of the greatest service. 
That one may acquire his greatest strength 
and achieve his greatest victories at the 
point at which he was originally weakest 
is a mighty spiritual truth. 

Surpassing as is this fact it is an even 
greater truth that in the great cosmic 
movement — the Divine Order — every 
human being has his own individual work 
to do. When you come to think of it it is 
inconceivable that it could be otherwise, 
every man being the expression of a Divine 
and perfect idea. This means, dear reader, 
that in a sense, the universe will be in- 
complete until you find and do your true 
Work, and that in the doing you will know 
absolute joy, peace, harmony and satis- 
faction. It means that if all the world 
should attempt your work and fail at it, 
absolute success in it would be yours, for 
in the doing would be the fullest expres- 



128 ATTAINMENT THROUGH 

sion of your Eeal Self. To find for you 
your true individual place and work is the 
office of intuition. 

The negative mind is an **uncentered'' 
mind. We are to be negative to God only, 
i.e., we are to be dominated by — receptive 
to — the Universal Mind only, the Christ 
mind within. This is being centered in 
consciousness. The pathway is via intui- 
tion. 

The positive mind is magnetic. It draws 
its own. No mountain, no river, no plain, 
no depth, no height, is too great to prevent 
the positive mind from attracting its own. 

*'Nor time, nor space, nor deep, nor high, 
Can keep my own away from me."^ 

Compromise means complications. The 
spiritual mind is the positive mind. Noth- 
ing is promised *^him that wavereth. Let 
not that man think he shall receive any- 
thing of the Lord." Also there are times 
when you are simply to *^ stand still and 
see the salvation of the Lord," — ^not neces- 
sarily the deliverance as pictured by your 

1 From "Waiting," by John Burroughs. 



INTUITION 129 

reasoning mind but according to the per- 
fect idea in the Divine Mind. ^* Having 
done all,'^ you must stand. **Be steadfast, 
unmovable/' The greater seems the ap- 
parent calamity impending, the nearer is 
your deliverance. 

*'The highest inspiration usually conies from 
the wail of despair, and those who weep are 
often close upon the confines of great joy, love, 
peace and perfect rest."^ 

Paradoxical as it may seem, intuition is 
largely what we make it. If we are habitu- 
ally thorough, it is thorough; if we are 
superficial only, alas! it seems superficial; 
if we are unstable, it is unstable; if we 
are obedient, it is obedient ; and if we are 
in dead earnest, it is in dead earnest. In 
sublime wisdom it adapts itself to our in- 
dividual consciousness. In the language of 
a great teacher, 

**When leaned upon, believed in, stood by, 
the Heavenly Trend shows forth plainly. When 
the ways against the Heavenly Trend are tam- 
pered with they crush like millstones.'' ^ 

1 From "The Hidden Way," by J. 0. Street. 

2 Emma Curtis Hopkins. 



130 ATTAINMENT THROUGH 

Bondage is enduring what intuition re- 
jects as unnecessary or unworthy. Mis- 
fortune is due to failure to stick to the 
things of Spirit as revealed through intui- 
tion. In being born into the spiritual 
realm there are birth-pains as truly as in 
the physical birth. But **the greater the 
victory, the greater the glory." What if 
there does come a dark hour when failure 
seems inevitable? The urge for fuller and 
larger expression is always the divine 
urge. 

When you have arrived at this point 
know that in accordance with the laws of 
mindj victory is now inevitable if you but 
persist. **This way is closed to doubters 
only." Because under these conditions 
victory is so signal, history is full of its 
examples. Sheridan's **Face the other 
way, boys, we're going back," and Grant's, 
*^I propose to fight it out on this line if 
it takes all summer," partake of this con- 
sciousness. Even Napoleon knew the 
principle when he said, *^If there is one 
soldier among you who would kill his em- 
peror, let him fire. ' ' Among the scriptural 
expressions of this idea are: **I will give 



INTUITION 131 

yon a mouth and wisdom which all your 
adversaries shall not be able to gainsay 
nor resist," *^No weapon that is formed 
against thee shall prosper," *^ Though he 
slay me yet will I trust in him, " * * I can do 
all things through Christ which strength- 
eneth me." 

*'When the way seems blocked and there seems 
no way of escape, then take courage and push 
on, go forward. There is no other way to go. 
Be sure just then that deliverance is near. 

**In such a situation never take counsel of 
common experience. This is no common situa- 
tion. The more extraordinary it seems, the more 
extraordinary will be the wisdom and power 
that will come to meet it. The voice of the world 
is, *You are in a pretty fix!' 'You are gone, 
surely!' 'Now don't you wish you had left 
well enough alone, and stayed where you were ? ' 
Common experience may suggest a compromise, 
or that it is better to surrender than be de- 
stroyed. Divine counsel is, Go forward. Never 
give up. Never surrender. Never compromise. 
Under the divine direction, command a way to 
open through the sea, through the apparently 
impossible. When they told Napoleon he could 
not pass the Alps with his army, he replied, 
* There are no Alps!' He passed them. In his 
mind he removed them.^ 

iFrom "Go Forward," by P. S. Van Eps. 



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To be phased is not to have come into 
the stability consciousness. It is apparent 
the key is in the will. Because the will is 
so imperial the reactions from its perver- 
sion are correspondingly severe. Spirit 
does not lend itself permanently to our 
mere manipulation for the accomplishment 
of personal ends. 

It is in connection with the will that 
there come the most subtle and alluring 
suggestions to depart from the intuitive 
path. A little self-analysis is quite likely 
to reveal that you are really doing, not 
what Spirit through intuition is telling you 
to do, but what you want to do, or even 
what you have decided God ought to want 
you to do. Such are the subtleties of the 
reasoning mind. 

** Sometimes we get into prisons, hke Jeremiah 
thinking he was doing God-service and sur- 
prised to find himself a martyr. If he had only- 
just known he was not doing God-service! He 
was merely thinking he was. His modus ope- 
randi was only caught from his own mind. 'Who 
is this that darkeneth counsel by words without 
knowledge?' "^ 

1 Emma Curtis Hopkins. 



iNTUITION 133 

It is useless to say we have faith and 
then act to the contrary. In finding and 
doing what God actually desires and 
through intuition tells us to do is there 
healing of body or affairs. Also every 
time you solve your problem by means of 
spiritual principles you help the collective 
consciousness of the world as to that kind 
of problem. **No man liveth unto him- 
self.'' Everything done on the human 
plane is by the co-operation of naan and 
God. When men individually * * do the 
will" then is the healing of the nations. 
Primarily the way to solve the interna- 
tional problem is for you and me to solve 
our individual problems. 

It often happens that to be guided by 
our intuitions is to do the thing that ap- 
pears to be so radical that we hesitate. 
We must not be dominated by ** appear- 
ances'' however, but by ** righteous judg- 
ment" — the judgment which is the percep- 
tion of truth from within and not from 
without. **The secret of things is from 
within. ' ' Intuition may be leading you out 
of your present environment, away from 



134 ATTAINMENT THROUGH 

persons with whom you are associated, and 
into an absolutely new realm — one so won- 
derful and transcendent that you have no 
present conception what it will mean to 
you. At all events, there is nothing to 
fear. 

Premonitions of impending calamity 
should be emphatically denied. The future 
is builded out of the present, and the very 
purpose of the premonition is that we may 
use the present in order to avoid in the 
future that which might otherwise be 
calamitous. The power of thought is given 
us not merely that we may create, but that 
we may eradicate any and every false or 
negative condition. 

The giving of reasons on the part of the 
intuitive person is usually a mistake, and 
indeed may be fatal to the success of the 
thing at hand. To give a reason is often- 
times to set up a defense. Truth needs 
no defense. If I have the truth it is for 
me to act on it. The results will be self- 
evident and self -vindicating. 

There is sometimes a belief that to defer 
to intuition is to depreciate one's self or in 
some way to suffer loss. The truth is the 



INTUITION 135 

reverse of this. Among the keenest of 
human suffering is that occasioned by self- 
depreciation, self-pity, or self-condemna- 
tion. In its emancipation from all these obe- 
dience to intuition is often revolutionary. 
Verily it is a case of **He that loseth his 
life shall find it. ' ' Not to be obedient to in- 
tuition is to lose the individuality one al- 
ready has, for of all faculties intuition pos- 
sesses most the quality of individuality. 
Jesus Christ was the most individualized 
man the world has yet known, and the most 
intuitive. 

Ultimately, having been obedient, we 
realize that we have done the only reason- 
able thing, and perhaps wonder how we 
could ever have contemplated doing any- 
thing else. 

Your intuition is primarily for your 
leading alone. Of no other faculty of the 
mind is this so true. It is therefore not 
for any person of mature years to be 
habitually negative to the mind of another. 

Many a wife becomes a chronic invalid 
for no other reason than that she has be- 
come habitually negative to the mind of 
her husband. The law of intuition is the 



138 ATTAINMENT THROUGH 

law of individuality and we ignore it at 
our peril. The time even comes when the 
mother-bird sometimes pushes her young 
out of the nest that they must of necessity 
learn to fly. 

General Grant listened to his advising 
generals and then issued his orders accord- 
ing to his own leadings. Queen Isabella 
of Spain declined to let others do her think- 
ing for her. Many have to learn what 
this means. With some minds if not done 
intuitively it would merely lead to stub- 
bornness. In no event, however, is intui- 
tion cultivated except by thinking our own 
thoughts and expressing individuality in 
our lives. Compromise at this point often 
means complications in affairs, health or 
finances. 

Whatever the seeming exceptions to the 
individuality of intuition they are more 
apparent than real. There may be an in- 
tuitive knowing on the part of one person 
for another in the case of parent and child, 
husband and wife, teacher and pupil, law- 
yer and client, partner and partner. I 
might know intuitively, for instance, that 
you should take better care of your health, 



INTUITION 137 

or pay your debts, or that you have been 
disobedient to your intuitions, or that you 
should rid yourself of a false friend. 

Those negative in consciousness find that 
intuition often comes to their aid by the 
suggestion to seek advice, the adviser in- 
dicated being a person of positive and 
intuitive nature — just the kind to be most 
helpful at such times. A conference under 
these circumstances is worth all it costs of 
time, money or effort. Many a sickness 
is thus avoided, many a financial calamity 
averted, many a problem solved. Perhaps 
the greatest possible kindness that can be 
done for you, dear reader, at such a time, is 
to help you to the point where you again 
become conscious of your own intuitional 
leadings. Spirit cares far more for intui- 
tion to be aroused and obeyed than for 
your freedom from problems, or your pos- 
session of gold or even health. 

While I might with benefit advise you 
generally or even specifically there is a 
point beyond which I cannot go, for the 
self-evident reason that no one else can 
live your life for you. When you unmis- 
takably get your intuitive leadings you 



138 ATTAINMENT THROUGH 

should follow them even though they are 
at variance with what others conceive to 
be their judgment for you. Thus is the 
individuality of your own intuition vindi- 
cated and established. 

There is a subtle danger alike in seeking 
to dominate or in becoming negative to the 
mind of another. This is obviated by 
holding in mind that only the Divine Idea 
manifests, the suggestion being, of course, 
that ** personality'' is thus subordinated 
to the Divine Mind. In the larger sense 
the time must inevitably come, in this in- 
carnation or in some other, when each must 
learn to rely on Spirit within only. **A11 
thy children shall be taught of the Lord.*' 
More persons fail, however, in an unwill- 
ingness to seek or receive help when they 
should than otherwise. 

It is seldom that two or more persons 
can co-operate intuitively for any long 
period of time. The reason is that through 
intuitive unfoldment each becomes so in- 
dividualized as, in a sense, to become a 
law unto himself. This does not mean that 
we are thus less loving or more selfish 



' INTUITION 13S 

or indifferent, but that we are guided less 
and less by mere personal opinions, and 
more and more by Divine Mind. Intui- 
tion's sway is monopolistic. Successful 
intuitive expression requires that we be 
negative to intuition only. 

It is noteworthy that Mr. Norbelle, re- 
ferred to in Chapter I, could not co-operate 
with Mrs. Norbelle in stock speculation. 
When he attempted to follow her advice his 
mind became negative to hers instead of to 
his own intuition, and thereby lost its ini- 
tiative. Nor could Mrs. Norbelle success- 
fully co-operate with either of the two men. 
Her thought processes were so at variance 
with theirs that as soon as she began to 
reason as to their procedure her thinking 
dropped thereby to the mental plane and 
she lost inspiration. 

In a partnership it often occurs, for 
instance, that one is the better financier 
while the other is superior in technical 
knowledge, in which case the one most in- 
tuitive as to finances should be deferred 
to as to them, and vice versa. In the larger 
sense, each, by associating with a mind 
strong to the point of intuition as regards 



140 ATTAINMENT THROUGH 

a certain line of action, thus has the op- 
portunity to become trained in the line in 
which he is individually weak. Not every 
one is big enough to take this attitude, 
however. It sometimes occurs, of course, 
that the pupil outgrows and surpasses the 
teacher. 

If you and I are guided in our relations 
by our intuitions such a thing as a quarrel 
or even a disagreement between us will be 
impossible. This holds good in all rela- 
tions of life and is true even though we 
simply agree to separate. Much more is 
it true if we are to co-operate. The rea- 
sons for this are: 

(a) In the Divine Mind there is but one 
idea in regard to our relations and it is 
manifestly impossible for the Divine Idea 
to be that we shall both agree and dis- 
agree. The Divine Mind cannot be at 
variance with itself. Its ideas are perfect. 
Our ideas, based on precedent and wrought 
out more or less through reason, are im- 
perfect. Therefore it is for us to ascertain 
by means of intuition just what is the 
Divine idea as to the situation in hand. 



INTUITION 141 

(h) If you and I are true to our high 
leading we shall perceive this Divine Idea. 
Then both of us working from the same 
standpoint, with the one idea in mind, it 
is self-evident that there can be only har- 
mony in our relations. This is as in- 
evitable as the mathematical axiom, **Two 
things equal to a third are equal to each 
other. ' ' 

In order to conform approximately to 
fixed standards the tailor must from time 
to time fit and adjust the new garments. 
In order to build the railroad or the sky- 
scraper in accordance with plans and 
specifications the engineer is constantly 
making measurements and consulting his 
drawings. So each day we should get in 
touch with the Divine Idea of life and its 
details, lest our personal will and imper- 
fect ideas creep in and retard us. 

What constitutes the Divine Idea is not 
revealed to us in its entirety, but only as 
we can assimilate it. Daily it will unfold 
like the rose. Spirit operates in the 
Eternal Now. It crosses no bridges in 
advance. We in our busybody solicitude, 



142 ATTAINMENT THROUGH 

in our self-importance, in our vanity, in 
our arrogance, are forever neglecting the 
Now and its resources in order that we 
may spend the thought forces of to-day 
living in an imaginary future that may 
never materialize, least of all in the way 
anticipated by us. Thus do we rob the 
Now and neglect to enjoy the sunshine of 
to-day, to speak the cheering word of to- 
day, to use the abundance of to-day. Such 
are the imperfect ideas that shut out from 
our consciousness the Divine Idea of per- 
fection. 

When we reverse the process and 
through intuition become receptive to the 
Divine Idea we are shown the next step. 
The step beyond, however, is hidden until 
we have brought it into visibility by taking 
the first step in faith. Intuition is ever 
ready to solve the deepest problems by 
revealing the step for to-day, even if that 
is only to **Be still and know.'' It is ready 
when we are ready — but not before. Spirit 
can wait — through many incarnations if 
necessary. With Spirit there is only the 
Eternal Now and time is not. Our visions 



INTUITION 143 

will be brought into visible manifestation 
only through learning to use the Now 
aright. 

You say, dear reader, that this seems 
hard and that God seems cold. Back of 
Divine law is love, and love alone. Back 
of the fact that fire scorches is the benefi- 
cent fact that it warms. Back of the fact 
that the man doubtless will be killed if he 
jumps from the precipice is the fact that 
the law of gravitation is indeed good. If 
we trifle with Divine laws we are likely 
to find them dynamite as well as dynamic. 

Intuition is the pilot that leads us out 
of much bondage arising from the com- 
plicated relationships of modern civiliza- 
tion. These appear in great variety, from 
those having their beginnings in most lov- 
ing ties to extreme cases amounting to 
veritable vampirization or hypnosis. 

Aside from relationships in which one 
person may rightfully exercise authority 
over another, as in that of parent and 
child, no person should ever dominate 
another to the point of inhibition of the 



144 ATTAINMENT THROUGH 

will. It is at this point that hypnotism 
has its beginnings, and the pathway of 
hypnotism is the pathway of death. 

Those awakened intuitively sometimes 
observe a sense of depletion following 
close association with certain persons. 
This may occur to the point that mere 
presence in the same room is followed by 
unpleasant reactions. While no one should 
surrender to such conditions irrationally 
nor yield to supersensitiveness, actual in- 
tuitive warnings are violated at our peril. 

Not infrequently two persons are in- 
volved in a relationship in which one has 
become so negative to the other that the 
individuality of the former is submerged. 
The mind of the latter is most probably 
positive, dominant and selfish. It absorbs, 
albeit unconsciously. The other is of the 
temperament that gives to the point of 
depletion. Many blond persons are of this 
type. Their magnetic radiations become 
so drawn upon that they suffer mentally 
and bodily. Numerous cases of physical 
disability originate in this way. The 
remedy is other companionship and either 
permanent or temporary separation from 



INTUITION 143 

the presence of the depleting person. 
This oftentimes the latter resists. The 
cause of such a relationship may be found 
in violated intuition; the remedy, obedi- 
ence thereto. Usually the remedy is in- 
tuitively known to the sufferer. The will 
to be obedient is of itself healing. 

In all cases of mind-domination each per- 
son involved is in bondage, though not of 
the same form. Because of the oneness 
of all mankind there is a certain unity even 
in bondage, but it is mainly the unity of 
remedy. The solution which is right for 
one is inevitably right for the other. The 
Divine Mind cannot be at variance with 
itself. The initiative as to the solution lies 
with the one most intuitive, and in apply- 
ing it he is helping both. With possibly 
few exceptions the initiative lies with the 
person dominated. Spiritual awakening 
brings larger responsibility, but the path- 
way of intuition is ever the pathway of 
faith. 

Consider intuition as personified in 
Wisdom and as speaking in the following 



146 ATTAINMENT THROUGH INTUITION 

lines, and observe how they take on a new 
significance : 

*^For Wisdom is better than rubies, and all the 
things that may be desired are not to be com- 
pared to it. 

*'I, "Wisdom, dwell with prudence, and find out 
knowledge of witty inventions. 

*' Counsel is mind and sound wisdom. I AM 
understanding. I have strength. 

^*By me kings reign and princes decree justice. 

"By me princes rule and nobles, even all the 
judges of the earth. 

"Riches and honor are with me; yea, durable 
riches and righteousness. 

"My fruit is better than gold, yea, than fine 
gold, and my revenue than choice silver. 

"I lead in the way of righteousness, in the 
midst of the paths of judgment; 

"That I may cause those that love me to in- 
herit substance, and I will fill their treasures. 

"Blessed is the man that heareth me, watching 
daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my 
doors. 

"For whoso findeth me findeth life, and shall 
obtain favor of the Lord. 

"But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his 
own soul. And they that hate me love death. '^^ 

"For the Wisdom that is from above is first 
pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be en- 
treated, full of mercy and good fruits, without 
partiality and without hypocrisy. ''^ 

1 Proverbs. 2 St. James. 



*^ There are few that realize . . . what America 
will yet do; but the divine appointment of that 
participation will become manifest in a series 
of world-changes, in a world-union and an ulti- 
mate world-happiness, that are quite beyond the 
present understanding or belief of either religion 
or nations." — '^Woodrow Wilson and fhe 
World's Peace/' by George D. H err on. 



CHAPTER VII 

Intuition and the Times 

**When revolutions occur it is man's laws 
only, not God's, that are affected. This is be- 
cause man's laws are not laws at all, but merely 
attempts to establish something as law. God's 
laws, on the other hand, are not subject to revolu- 
tion. They are made right in the beginning, and 
are unchangeable. Man's only connection with 
them is to discover them, apply them and con- 
form to them. No nation or community could 
be so ignorant as to try to start a revolution 
against the law of gravitation, but revolutions 
will continue to occur so long as men set down 
their opinions in a formal way and try to dig- 
nify them with the name of the law." 

— Ellis 0. Jones, in Life. {New York.) 

This is the statement of a transcendent 
truthi which would do honor to any period- 
ical printing it, and is especially note- 
worthy coming as it does from a humorous 
magazine. It should be a marker in every 
man's Bible. If the nations of the earth 

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150 INTUITION 

could in truth know that ** Man's laws are 
not laws at all, but merely attempts to es- 
tablish something as law," the millennium 
would indeed be at hand. Here is the 
key that unlocks the inequalities, the in- 
justices, the failures, the defects, of the 
the civilizations of all time, likewise the 
weaknesses of present day political, so- 
cial, industrial, marriage and educational 
systems. It must have been some such 
idea that prompted Lincoln when he said, 
*^I do not know anything about God being 
with us, but I am fearfully interested to 
know if we are with God. ' ' 

The trend of our ongoing in the various 
states of consciousness is ever upward, if 
not in the visible body then in our in- 
visible existence. Visible birth is death 
to an invisible world; death of this in- 
carnation is birth into an invisible world. 
Bearing in mind that with God time is not 
we perceive the meaning of the words of 
Jesus Christ when he said, ** Before Abra- 
ham was, I AM." As you, dear reader, 
are now, you are the product or manifesta- 
tion of all you have ever thought or learned 



AND THE TIMES 151 

in past incarnations, plus what you have 
acquired in this. 

The beginning of human existence as we 
know it is referred to in the Bible as that 
of the ' ' first Adam. ' ' The goal or ultimate 
end of existence (of the realization of 
which we are capable) is the consciousness 
of the *4ast Adam'' — ^Jesus Christ — ^in 
which consciousness we too can say, ^^I 
and my Father are one. ' ' Previous to that 
point we are in the realm where it seems 
to us that God and we are two, any realiza- 
tion of unity being less than absolute. 

That Adam-consciousness in which man 
awakens from the plane of the dumb brute 
to the realization of being something 
higher is eloquently portrayed in the lines 
of Hugh J. Hughes: 

*'A shape looked up from eating herb and grain. 
It chanced to see the stars, and with that look 
Came Wonderment, and Longing in its train. 
The food untasted lay. A beating pain 
Smote at its forehead, but it looked again 
And yet again, and then it thought. 
Lo ! Man stood upright as the stars did wane." 

Every human being is expressing him- 
self at some point on the pathway leading 



152 INTUITION 

to the consciousness of the second Adam 
— unless indeed he has already attained 
that consciousness. The Bible is the story 
of this ongoing of the soul in its visible 
incarnations. 

It should be borne in mind that man 
physical manifests on this earth in count- 
less millions, man intellectual in fewer mil- 
lions, and man spiritual but rarely. In- 
deed the one signal instance of the abso- 
lute spiritual consciousness of which we 
have any record is that of Jesus Christ 
There are many persons, however, in whose 
lives the spiritual nature is more or less 
dominant. Abraham Lincoln was a con- 
spicuous example of this type. 

Nature, Spirit, God, call the First Cause 
what you will, continually brings to each 
man by means of his own thoughts just 
those experiences and lessons that tend 
toward his normal unf oldment, at the same 
time leaving him free to express himself 
without interference with his will. Lest 
man become a mere automaton God does 
not compel his obedience. 

Everything done on the human plane is 



AND THE TIMES 153 

by means of the co-operation of man and 
God. Man cannot breathe or wink an eye- 
lid without using God-power. God, being 
invisible and universal, has no means of 
expressing himself in the realm of human- 
ity except by personifying in man, and 
actually does nothing otherwise. 

For instance, the silent thought-call and 
collective cry of a multitude of enslaved 
Afro-Americans contributed toward the 
coming into manifestation of Abraham 
Lincoln, even as the Jewish race for cen- 
turies consciously *^held the thought" that 
they should eventually be the progenitors 
of the visible Messiah. The woes, the 
sufferings, the tragedies of the black man 
had their echo in the throbbing heart of 
the Great Emancipator, and indeed were 
out-pictured in his life and death. Thus 
do man and God co-operate in every 
variety of manifestation. 

Through unerring application of these 
laws Emperor William of Germany is the 
principal human factor, instrument and 
agent in whom is concentrated or personi- 
fied the sum total of the virtues and weak- 
nesses of the German nation. A similar 



154 INTUITION 

statement may be made with regard to 
President Wilson and the American na- 
tion. Each is, for the time being, the per- 
sonification of the collective consciousness 
of his people. 

By those deficient in the perception of 
spiritual attributes Mr. Wilson has been 
criticised, maligned and misunderstood. 
He has been accused of lacking imagina- 
tion, mental elasticity, the gift of govern- 
ment, the ability to lead or to interpret 
the spirit of the people. The truth is that 
all the time he has discerned not less but 
more than his critics, that he is possessed 
of not less but more scope, vision and 
statesmanship than they have had the per- 
ception to appreciate. 

At crucial times, when confronted with 
international crises, when most men would 
be prone to seek the advice of other minds 
the President goes by himself, it may be 
for a long walk or ride in the country. 
After the sending of a certain important 
note to Germany he retired to the White 
House and was not seen for two whole 



AND THE TIMES 155 

days. When he returns from these periods 
of solitude his mind is made up and nothing 
can change it. As to the matter in hand 
he has been receptive to the Divine Idea. 
He then acts fearlessly and consequently 
with power. This process gives him his 
serenity, poise, and apparent indifference 
to criticism. Also it explains the buoyant 
health of a man in many respects far from 
rugged. 

At the beginning of President Wilson's 
second administration the New York 
Evening Post said: 

*'We see him gifted in speech; with few close 
personal friends; stoical in adversity; modest 
in victory; silent under abuse; resolute to the 
point of being obstinate; often too slow though 
sometimes swift as light; an idealist, but also a 
prudent and adroit man. He undoubtedly has 
a passion for the high things of the United 
States. . . . Whatever he has done or failed to 7 

do he has made the American Presidency glitter » 

beyond any throne." 

These are the characteristics of a man 
distinctly intuitive. With thought-proc- 
esses entirely at variance from those of the 



156 INTUITION 

typical politician and often not in accord- 
ance with those of the typical statesman, 
President Wilson has piloted the nation 
through many international situations 
both complex and delicate, and done so at 
times with a cleverness and an insight al- 
most uncanny, yet with a foresight little 
short of divine. This has been explained 
in many ways, but the secret is intuitive 
consciousness. No public man since Lin- 
coln has been the embodiment of intuition 
as fully as has Woodrow Wilson. ^ 'w^- 
A recent writer, speaking of President 
Wilson, whom he calls *^our first interna- 
tional statesman,'' pictures his intuitive 
spirit in the f olowing vivid and vigorous 
language : 

**So far from being a materialist, his advocacy 
of a world-democracy is in order that there 
may be a sphere for the true spiritual enfold- 
ment of both the collectivity and the individual. 
It is for this he has set before the single soul, 
and before ^ach citizenry, the goal of a just and 
joyous society of nations. . . . 

' ' Our President, acting now with such creative 
comprehension, is able so to act because he 
awaited the precise psychological moment. He 
studied the dial of the world's destiny; he 



AND THE TIMES 157 

watched the hands on the clock of God. With 
a patience as wise as it is magnanimous, with a 
spiritual shrewdness that reveals his kinship 
with Moses and Cavoir and Lincoln, with a 
prescience that appears nearly supernormal, he 
held broodingly and bravely to his appointed 
times. . . . 

''Ere long we shall perceive that there is not 
in all history a case of a nation being so adroitly 
and sublimely led out of one state of mind into 
another, and led with such psychological per- 
ception and mastery. If the nation, like the 
individual, has a subconscious mind, apparently 
it was this man alone who entered into it, so far 
as America was concerned — not entered only, 
but brought its deep-hid desires to the thresh- 
hold of practical politics, and translated them 
into conscious democratic purpose. ... 

' * And although Germany has lost and human- 
ity won, it is through the miraculous tact, the 
international statesmanship, that held sway over 
this one man's onward and unchanging pur- 
pose. . . . 

''He knows, too, how to dispense with banners, 
and how to accord his most revolutionary meas- 
ures to the 'still, small voice.' His largest 
intentions are hid within himself; he tells as 
little as possible beforehand; he prefers to let 
his mind be revealed by results rather than 
promises. ' '^ 

1 From "Woodrow Wilson and the World's Peace," by George 
D. Herron. 



158 INTUITION 

The New York Times, under the cap- 
tion, ^^ Wilson has the New AVill," prints 
an interesting article in which the distinc- 
tion between the spiritual consciousness 
and that of the rational mind is, perhaps 
unwittingly, set forth as follows : 

** Charles Gray Shaw, Professor of philosophy 
at New York University, sees a new 'will' typi- 
fied in certain of our citizens, notably in Presi- 
dent Wilson. 

'' 'The new psychology,' he told his class, 'has 
discovered the new will — the will that turns in- 
ward upon the brain instead of passing out 
through hand or tongue. Wilson has this new 
will. To Roosevelt, Wilson seems weak and 
vacillating, but that is because T. R. knows 
nothing about the new will. T. R. has a primi- 
tive mind, but one of the most advanced type. 
In the T. R. brain, so to speak, will means set 
teeth, clenched fists, hunting and rough riding. 

*' 'Wilson may be regarded as creating the 
new volition or as having discovered it. At any 
rate, Wilson possesses and uses the new volition, 
and it remains to be seen whether the political 
world at home and abroad is ready for it. Here 
it is significant to observe that the Germans, who 
are psychologists, recognize the fact that a new 
and important function of the mind has been 
focussed upon them. The Germans fear and 
respect the Wilson will of note- writing more than 



AND THE TIMES 159 

they would have dreaded the T. R. will with its 
teeth and fists.' *' 

All is in accordance with law. It has 
not merely happened that Woodrow Wilson 
is President of the United States during 
these crucial and convulsive times. The 
votes that placed him in the executive 
chair at Washington were but the visible 
product and manifestation of the One In- 
visible Power operating through human 
agencies as a medium or channel. 

Mr. Wilson's errors have been the mis- 
takes of a man conscientious and sincere 
feeling his way intuitively amid new and 
colossal problems and responsibilities well- 
nigh unthinkable. It is a safe assumption 
that no man has regretted those mistakes 
more than he. Even if there were mis- 
takes, or if his friends misunderstood and 
the nation criticised, or if in all the world 
there was no one who perceived, sym- 
pathized and appreciated, still he must 
** tread the winepress alone.'' For the in- 
tuitive way is the individual way. One 
must go alone and yet not alone. Its path 
is never wide enough for two to wal^ 



160 INTUITION 

abreast. The compensations, however, are 
beyond compare. If in fact there be no 
loneliness like the loneliness of living up 
to one's ideals in the face of misunder- 
standings, criticisms, condemnation and 
hostility, then the more true is it that there 
is no comradeship like the consciousness of 
the presence, approval, co-operation and 
love of Spirit. 

Lincoln knew this aloneness, and in this 
respect no one has more perfectly inter- 
preted Lincoln than has Woodrow Wil- 
son. It requires an artist to discover an 
artist, a genius to interpret a genius. 
When, through the Lincoln Farm Associa- 
tion, the log-cabin which was Lincoln's 
birth-place became a nation's shrine, Presi- 
dent Wilson, in his speech of acceptance, 
said: 

**I nowhere get the impression in any nar- 
rative or reminiscence that the writer had in 
fact penetrated to the heart of his mystery, or 
that any man could penetrate to the heart of it. 
That brooding spirit had no real familiars. 

'*I get the impression that it never spoke out 
in complete self-revelation, and that it could 
not reveal itself completely to anyone. It was 



AND THE TIMES 161 

a very lonely spirit that looked out from under- 
neath those shaggy brows and comprehended 
men without fully communing with them, as if, 
in spite of all its genial efforts at comradeship, 
it dwelt apart, saw its visions of duty where 
no man looked on. There is a very holy and 
very terrible isolation for the conscience of every 
man who seeks to read the destiny in affairs for 
others as well as himself, for a nation as well 
as for individuals. Their privacy no man can 
intrude upon. That lonely search of the spirit 
for the right perhaps no man can assist. This 
strange child of the cabin kept company with 
invisible things, as born into no intimacy but 
that of its own silently assembling and deplojdng 
thoughts. ' ' 

Among the items in public print indicat- 
ing the German consciousness the follow- 
ing are selected as typical: 

** *Our emperor, our chancellor, our leading 
men, like our people, have no equals,' said Dr. 
Lasson, professor of philosophy at Berlin. 

** 'We are the salt of the earth,' the Kaiser 
assured his subjects; also, 'the German people 
will be the rock of granite upon which our Lord 
God can build and complete the work of culture 
in the world.' 

*'In 1891, William said to his soldiers, 'Body 
and soul you belong to me. If I command you 



162 INTUITION 

to shoot your fathers and mothers . . . you 
must follow my command without a murmur. ' 

**At other times he said, 'Only one is master 
in this empire, and I am that one'; *It is my 
business to decide if there shall be war*; *You 
must all indeed have one will, but that is my 
will; there is only one law and that is my law.' 

**When he declared war in 1914 he said, 'On 
me as the German Emperor the spirit of God 
has descended. I am his weapon, his sword, his 
vice-regent.' " 

It should be borne in mind that, irre- 
spective of our ideas the above is (or was) 
truth to its authors and to a large portion 
of the German people. 

We assume that we are in a higher con- 
sciousness than the Germans, but it is well 
not to forget that the contrary is assumed 
by them. It is evident that the assump- 
tion alone is not conclusive evidence in 
either case. Who is to decide this 1 and by 
what standards is the decision to be made ? 
That cause which most perfectly *^ dis- 
covers God's laws, applies them, and con- 
forms to them" must ultimately triumph, 
irrespective of physical might or even 
apparent physical victory. That cause 
which is merely ** attempting to establish 



AND THE TIMES 163 

something as law'' must inevitably dis- 
cover how puerile in fact is that attempt. 
Speaking along this line Henri Bergson, 
the French philosopher, says : 

** Militarized Germany lives on the Bismarck- 
ian ideal that might makes right, and she prac- 
tices the cult of brute force. France has the 
ideal of justice and liberty on her side. Her 
ideal will kill the German ideal." 

The law is, as we have seen, that the 
higher transcends the lower. The con- 
sciousness, or as Bergson terms it, the 
** ideal" of France, England, America and 
the rest will, assuming that it is in har- 
mony with God's laws, transcend or **kill" 
the German ideal. 

It requires no prophet to perceive that 
with a change in the collective conscious- 
ness of the German people will inevitably 
come a change of leadership. Our * * School- 
master President," while forced to wage 
war against Germany, with an intuitive 
perception of these principles, has left no 
stone unturned to educate the German 
people to a higher consciousness. History 
affords no more interesting or significant 



164 [INTUITION 

instance of a nation's ruler applying a 
far-reaching spiritual principle in interna- 
tional affairs than that of President Wil- 
son's drawing the line of demarcation 
between the attitude of the German people 
and that of its leaders. Whatever else the 
German war is, it is a war of education. 
Since the Lusitania occurrence and all 
through the period of much ridiculed 
*^ note-writing" the President has never 
lost sight of the world-wide educational 
responsibilities of his exalted position. 
That those efforts should at times meet 
with resistance and even venomous opposi- 
tion is merely evidence that the vitals of 
Prussianism have been reached. Lower 
realms of consciousness, when in danger 
of dethronement, are ever ready to resort 
to ridicule, treachery, cruelty, even cruci- 
fixion, if seemingly thereby their reign may 
be perpetuated. Woodrow Wilson by his 
educational policy is doing more to win the 
war and establish the world's peace than 
as yet appears. It being true that * * They 
that take the sword shall perish with the 
sword," it may be that when Prussianism 
is defeated — and defeated it will be — ^that 



AND THE TIMES 165 

the final and real victory will prove to be 
a non-military one. 

Unity is a fundamental spiritual prin- 
ciple. Its antithesis is separation. The 
rational mind is eternally seeing differ- 
ences, discontinuity, separation — the spir- 
itual mind is ever uniting. Because na- 
tions and religions have been the product 
of mental rather than spiritual thought 
their history, with a few exceptions, has 
been the history of dissension, schisms, off- 
shoots and separation. 

The spiritual mind has for its basis 
unity, whose twin is balance, A century 
and a half ago the United States learned 
the principle of unity as applied politically, 
and sounded it in the first word of its name. 
It applied the principle of balance in the 
adjustment between the legislative, judicial 
and executive departments of government, 
and between the powers ®f the states and 
central government. Because thus founded 
on spiritual principles the United States 
of America has outgrown its swaddling 
clothes and is become a leader among 
nations. 



166 INTUITION 

The German Empire, it is true, is 
founded on a certain unity between states, 
but the fundamental purpose is military 
and therefore a selfish one, while the ele- 
ment of balance as we know it is lacking. 
Germany's so-called unity personifies 
violence, conquest, cruelty, bondage, hatred, 
injustice, selfishness; America personifies 
peace, good- will, liberty, fraternity, justice, 
humanity. With little more than physical, 
industrial and military unity as a basis, 
in the arrogance of its ignorance and in- 
flated with visions of its own self-import- 
ance, Prussianism now seeks to dominate 
the world! Prussianism is ** personality** 
gone rampant. 

In religious toleration, in the common 
school system, the political affiliation of 
states, the consolidation of railways, the 
formation of trusts and in many other 
ways the United States has sought the ap-^ 
plication of the principle of unity within 
her borders, but has held more or less 
aloof from other nations lest she be caught 
in ** entangling alliances." While busy 
attending to her own development at home 



AND THE TIMES 167 

she has been willing to pursue a live-and- 
let-live policy abroad. The principle of 
unity, however, being spiritual, is like the 
leaven that leavens the whole lump. Once 
actually set into operation its momentum 
becomes automatic and inevitable. This is 
one of the proofs of its spirituality. The 
great spiritual principle and incentive back 
of the present war is that the nations of 
the world may in truth and in fact express 
the principle of unity. 

Every thought has its action and its 
reaction. The thought behind our govern- 
ment's refusal to accept the entire Boxer 
indemnity had its favorable reaction in 
later years in the strengthening of our 
friendship with China. Whatever the 
thought behind Belgium's Congo atrocities, 
the reaction upon the Belgians has seem- 
ingly been cataclysmic. Irrespective of 
** badness," ** goodness," or *' personal- 
ity," law on any plane operates auto- 
matically until it comes in conflict with 
laws on a higher plane. The law of elec- 
tricity would have operated just as readily 
for Nero as for Jesus Christ. Obedience 
is the only condition. * ^ God is no respecter 



168 INTUITION 

of persons. '* God loves the Eeal Selves 
of the Germans as much and as truly as 
he loves any other people or race. **The 
sun shines on the just and on the unjust.'' 
But Spirit through its laws will not per- 
manently tolerate unused faculties or re- 
sources on the part of individuals or 
peoples. Nor is there time ever to test 
on our oars. To become stagnant is the 
beginning of death. Onward is ever the 
march of Being. 

This war is far more than a mere 
physical conflict between opposing armies. 
The civilized peoples of the world have 
been too self-satisfied, too indifferent to 
the realities of life. Multitudes have 
neglected to use their thought-faculties 
and the interior resources of their Being. 
A noted English writer,^ speaking along 
these lines recently, said: 

*'In every civilized nation the mass of the 
people are inert and indifferent. Some even 
make a pretense of justifying their inertness. 
Why, they ask, should we stir at all? Is there 
such a thing as duty to improve the earth? 

iFrom "The Tyranny of Shams," by Joseph McCabe. 



AND THE TIMES 169 

What is the meaning or purpose of life? or has 
it a purpose V 

Many persons are disturbed by the ap- 
parent inability of Christianity to cope 
with the present chaotic conditions of the 
world. We see ^* Christian'' peoples doing 
their utmost to kill each other, and praying 
for success in so doing (!). In ways un- 
thinkable men are doing collectively what 
under no circumstances would they do in- 
dividually. The world-war is a war of 
education but not of man-made brand. 
Most education as we know it is exoteric. 
True education is esoteric — from within. 
By means of this war countless millions are 
literally shaken out of their old conscious- 
ness and compelled to think new thoughts, 
nolens volens. Habit, disinclination, con- 
ventionality, conservatism, resistance, are 
all as nothing. Great numbers are using 
their mental faculties who hitherto lived 
an existence little more than physical. 
Countless others are voluntarily seeking 
spiritual truth who were formerly indif- 
ferent or even hostile to ideas above the 
mental plane. It behooves us to see to it 



170 INTUITION 

individually and collectively that we are 
sound and just in our consciousness of 
fundamental principles and the application 
thereof. 

Already, however, there are signs of 
hope and the light of another era is 
dawning : 

**A11 those who have watched with seeing eyes 
and understanding minds the sublime though 
terrible drama enacted in Europe, have re- 
ported not that nations are being decimated or 
destroyed, but that new and greater nations are 
being born. Nation after nation rises to new 
and unexampled heights of self-sacrifice, ardu- 
ous toil, simple living, and uncomplaining 
dying. The spiritual as well as the material 
life of the nations at war is being transmuted 
into something different and more precious. 

*'From the warfare 'there leads a path,' as 
that which Dante found leading out of the in- 
ferno, a path 'discovered not by sight,' but *by 
the sound of brooklet,' a brooklet of blood that 
trickles along the hidden way by which is to be 
reached the pure air of democracy's purgatorial 
struggle. 

*'The spirit which has walked through this 
hell in Europe is the guide to the superstate 
which our country is even now so anxiously seek- 
ing, for it is indeed searching for the way of 
salvation, from its inefficiencies of government, 



AND THE TIMES 171 

from its multiform public and private wastes, 
from its crass materialism, from its class hatreds, 
from its ignorances and its intemperances.''^ 

**A world citizenry is suddenly springing into 
being; and it may not be long till it takes pos- 
session of its own. . . . There are many signs 
that the people may soon open their eyes, be- 
holding each other as members of one eternal 
family, never divided in reality but only in ap- 
pearance nor made enemies by else than the 
perennial exploitage of parasitic systems and 
sovereignties. . . . 

''The war will burn up the hatreds of both 
the present and the past. There will be a puri- 
fication of the world from hatred before long. 
The foolishness of hate is already apparent to 
the soldiers in the trenches, and to their fathers 
and mothers and wives at home. I have seen it 
— and I dare to declare it that there never was 
so little of hate in the world as now. Hate was 
never so near to extinction as it is at this 
most embattled moment of man's planetary 
career. . . . 

''Despite the despairs and illusions of these 
blood-drunken days I also see that the world is 
instinct with an unwonted expectancy, with a 
sense of some near Messianic intervention and 
pervasion, and that a change of upward and 
universal scope is preparing. At any hour, in 

1 John H. Finley (Commissioner of Education for New York) 
in the New York Times. 



172 INTUITION 

the twinkling of an eye, the change may come, 
and an indwelling and Divine Social Presence 
enfold and unite the aware and glad peoples."^ 

The fact is that the war is upsetting old 
standards and world methods and is usher- 
ing in the day of intuition. While the 
typical German consciousness is unthink- 
able to France, England or America, it is 
nevertheless true that because of the war 
these nations also will materially revise 
their standards and consciousness. Never 
again shall we go back to some of the 
national and international methods and 
political expediencies of even a short five 
years ago. It must be our business to see 
to it that we discover more of God's *4aws 
not subject to revolution, apply them, and 
conform to them.*' Spirit cares even less 
about victory on the part of a nation or 
an individual than about a true spiritual 
awakening. 

Multitudes realize that there is in 
process a great Cosmic Movement for 
which adequate interpretation seems lack- 
ing. A notable fact is that this movement 

1 From "Woodrow Wilson and the World's Peace," by George 
D. Herron. 



AND THE TIMES 173 

has no visible leader, though the minds of 
many are ready to ascribe to it the One 
Great Leader, and to associate it with the 
second coming of Jesus Christ. 

The peoples of the earth are being com- 
pelled to line up on one side or the other 
of the conflict. The German-Americans 
within our borders have been constrained 
to renounce a dual allegiance or suffer the 
consequences. The youth of the land are 
imperatively required to serve their coun- 
try or be forever branded as cowards. 
There is not one of us but who is forced 
in some fundamental way to make per- 
sonal choice for or against the great move- 
ment, and what is true in America is true 
in practically all civilized nations. These 
facts are of far-reaching significance. 
There are those who see in them the ful- 
filling of Biblical prophecy and such is 
doubtless the case, but no prophecy is re- 
quisite to those intuitively awake to the 
trend of world-wide events. ^'Can ye not 
discern the signs of the times?'' 

The leader is the One Great Leader 
whom Kaiser William and his anti-Christ 
cohorts have omitted to take into their 



174 INTUITION 

calculations ; the Leader who in his visible 
coming organized no system of worship, 
established no church, left no code of laws, 
wrote no gospel, was secretary of nothing, 
was president of nothing ; although he was 
the greatest teacher of all time he never 
styled himself ** Professor,'' and though he 
was the greatest healer of all time he never 
called himself ** Doctor'' Jesus Christ. He 
never classified men as members or non- 
members of any church or sect, but he 
divided all men for all time by means of 
the simple formula, *'He that is not with 
me is against me. ' ' And to-day the tribula- 
tions of the nations arise because of the 
forced line-up under this formula. 

In one respect the future of the world 
is certain — it will be governed by spiritual 
principles and heart-power and not by 
force and mere intellect. The Germans 
have tried to rule by these and the world 
bleeds and weeps. 

In seeking a co-ordination of the facts 
involved in this evolutionary movement 
certain ideas stand out with great signifi- 
cance. Among these are: 



AND THE TIMES 175 

That every man, regardless of race, 
color, creed or nationality, is an expression 
of Divinity; That the real Christ of every 
man is within him whether we see it or 
not and is identical with that Divinity; 
That the higher consciousness is incom- 
prehensible to the lower until the lower 
becomes it; That the lower consciousness 
can never rightfully be the object of selfish 
exploitation on the part of the higher; 
That the teachings of the Christ were for 
all and not for the select few. 

These facts, combined with the leader- 
lessness of the present Cosmic Movement, 
supplement each other, and from their 
correlation there may be deduced: 

That ihrougJb the quickening of indi- 
vidual Christ consciousness the Great In- 
visible Leader is unifying the thought and 
action of the inhabitants of the world. 

That this is being done collectively as 
far as collective consciousness will permit, 
but individually without exception. 

That the supreme lesson for us at the 
present time individually is to identify our 
consciousness with the Divine Idea, and to 
express it by becoming It as far and as 



176 INTUITION 

fast as possible. This is not resistance to 
hut co-operation with the Great Invisible 
Leader, by merging our individual con- 
sciousness of justice, peace, harmony, love 
and life — the attributes of Divinity — into 
the collective consciousness of the world\ 
Thus shall there be fusion of God and man 
in universal manifestation. Thus shall 
there be the ushering in of the new and 
Divine Order, 

It is resistance to this Divine Order that 
is producing chaos among the nations. By 
our attitude as individuals we either har- 
monize with or set up opposing forces 
against the great Cosmic Movement. We 
do this by non-resistance and co-operation 
or by resistance, as the case may be. 

The principle of non-resistance has been 
little understood and practiced less, for the 
reason that being a spiritual principle it 
can only be spiritually perceived. To 
those who comply with them its laws are 
as available and as practical as the law 
of gravitation. Non-resistance is not so 
much an act as a consciousness, but a con- 
sciousness which forms the most positive 



AND THE TIMES 177 

and absolute basis for action or non-action. 
The significance of ^^Eesist not evil,'* con- 
sists less in letting some one walk over us 
than in the intuitive discernment that therd 
being no substance, power, or life in evil, 
there is nothing to resist. 

We shall perceive the principle of non- 
resistance the more readily by attempting 
to apply it individually rather than col- 
lectively. President Wilson, for instance, 
may be a non-resistant at heart but know- 
ing that the people of the nation collec- 
tively are not ready for non-resistance as 
a national policy he wisely remains silent 
on the subject. 

Non-resistance is not negation. To be 
non-resistant is not to be lacking in moral 
courage — quite the contrary — though many 
possessing mere physical courage so think. 
The advantages of non-resistance are that 
one is thereby allied with truth and power. 
The disadvantages are only apparent — not 
real. 

Assertiveness and combativeness are the 
masculine, silence and non-resistance the 
feminine of consciousness. Combativeness 
is usually assertive, noisy, bulljdng and 



178 INTUITION 

spectacular. Non-resistance includes the 
attributes of silence, poise, fearlessness 
and meekness. Washington and Lincoln 
when maligned were non-resistant. Jesus 
Christ when accused before Pilate was non- 
resistant. His silence was due to his per- 
fect perception of the nothingness of what 
Pilate stood for, and the futility of words 
under the circumstances. 

There is a distinction between non-re- 
sistance and pacifism. Pacifists arouse 
antagonism because they are mentally and 
actually resistant. Simple non-resistance 
alone arouses little or no antagonism. The 
typical pacifist, however, is a belligerent 
at heart — ^he feels called upon to combat 
others in the maintenance of their views 
and tries to compel them to think and do 
as he thinks and does. 

The true disciple of non-resistance is 
non-resistant even to his neighbor's belief 
in resistance, acknowledges his sincerity 
and accords him perfect freedom therein. 
Intuitively perceiving that there is nothing 
^no evil — to resist, he pursues the even 
tenor of his way, not opposing you or me 



AND THE TIMES 179 

in our right to do as we wish, nor resisting 
the right of the people to pursue their 
collective policy. Through a spirit of 
kindness and with perfect consistency, for 
instance, he might even assist his brother 
militarist with his military preparations. 
If drafted to military service the non-re- 
sistant would serve. Were he inwardly 
true to the spiritual principle involved his 
individual experiences would be such that 
it would not suffer outrage nor he personal 
violence. 

At the present state of our collective 
unfoldment as a people it is not to be ex- 
pected that America could or should adopt 
non-resistance as a national policy, but 
everyone who perceives the principle is 
free to practice it individually. 

If we were to bring captured German 
soldiers to America and with the help of 
our de-hyphenated and truly loyal German- 
Americans educate them, by means of 
printed matter and lectures, in the prin- 
ciples of Americanism and as to why we 
are in this war, later returning them to 
Germany, that would be an application of 
the law of non-resistance so far as it went. 



180 INTUITION 

It is easy to enumerate reasons why this 
should not or could not be done, in reply 
to which it need only be said that when 
we comply with a spiritual principle the 
principle itself operates and ultimately 
nullifies all seeming reasons against it. 
When some one with a perception of these 
principles applies them people oftentimes 
ascribe the results to chance, not perceiv- 
ing that the unexpected or seemingly 
miraculous is simply the result of an ap- 
plication of the law, and that nothing 
merely happens. 

If toward German prisoners America 
practices some such policy, if she refrains 
from reprisals, if she is true and steadfast 
in her adherence to the sublime and God- 
given doctrine that ** Governments derive 
their just powers from the consent of the 
governed," if when peace is declared she 
refuses to be a party to any punitive in- 
demnities, then in these respects will she 
be practicing national non-resistance in 
truth and in fact. After the lessons of the 
Civil war these are but the logical steps 
for her fearlessly to pursue — to do less 
would be to be false to her high traditions. 



AND THE TIMES 181 

Non-resistance may be expressed as 
ostracism, and most effectively so. Ostra- 
cism is exclusion from common privileges, 
social, commercial or political favor, but to 
be spiritual such exclusion should be free 
from bitterness, resentment, and overt acts 
tending to injure the party excluded. The 
question is often asked, Should the contest 
between Prussianism and the Allies result 
in a stalemate, ivJiat then? The answer is, 
systematic and persistent social, commer- 
cial and political ostracism of Germany and 
the Germans. Such a policy on the part 
of the Allied nations collectively and their 
peoples individually would be overwhelm- 
ingly effective in its results, and relatively 
inexpensive from a money standpoint. 
Nothing would be so far-reaching educa- 
tionally or tend to arouse the Germans 
from their present dense consciousness as 
to the peace and welfare of the world. It 
is doubtful if any other weapon, military 
or non-military, would be more surely and 
speedily victorious.^ 

With every individual or collective at- 
tempt to establish a higher consciousness 

*See Appendix. 



182 INTUITION 

in visible manifestation there comes a time 
of testing, and the more spiritual the at- 
tempt, the more acute the test. The psy- 
chology of this principle is set forth in 
the Biblical story of the Israelites at the 
time of their coming to the Red Sea. In 
spite of the waters in front God told Moses 
to command them that they go forward. 
Ignoring the whinings and complainings 
of the children of Israel, Moses had the 
faith to tell them also that they should see, 
not the deliverance evolved by reasonings 
on their part, but the '^salvation of the 
Lord.'' And they saw it. The waters 
parted and they walked to the other shore 
on dry ground. **Not by might, nor by 
power, but by my spirit, saith the Lord of 
Hosts.'' 

It is just this dark point that forms 
crises in the midst of any movement having 
a spiritual basis. It is then true that 
** Darkest is the hour just before dawn." 
These testing times are in accordance with 
psychological and spiritual laws and in 
fact occur not infrequently in the history 
of men and of nations. Early in the 



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present war, for instance, when Paris was 
in peril from the hordes of the Hun, 

*'The great marshal rolled up his maps and 
said that the retreat had gone far enough. In 
an order of the day which will be read by- 
French children and by liberty lovers of all the 
world to the last syllable of recorded time, 
Marshal Joffre said to his men whom his own 
genius had gathered between Paris and Verdun, 
'The time has come to stand where we are and 
to die in our tracks rather than yield another 
step of France/ '* 

What then occurred is now history. 

Such a testing time came iVi the period 
of the American Revolution in the dark 
days of Valley Forge, when the shoeless 
feet of the Colonial soldiers left trails of 
blood in the winter snow. There was a 
similar dark time during the Civil war, 
just prior to the Proclamation of Eman- 
cipation. That there will be periods of 
gloom — testing times in reality — ere the 
present world-wide cataclysm is ended and 
peace restored is seemingly self-evident. 
They may not come until we have poured 
out our treasures of gold at home and our 



184 INTUITION AND THE TIMES 

treasures of blood in Europe. Our very- 
national structure may quiver — indeed it 
may give way in places — and no man can 
with certainty predict the form of the test- 
ing. The collapse, if collapse there be, will 
occur at those places where we have built 
according to man^s and not according to 
God's laws. 

The supreme motive behind it all is the 
self-same spiritual motive that these 
United States stand for — unification. 

The supreme power back of it all is love. 

The supreme test of men and of nations 
— attempt to dodge it as we will — is em- 
bodied in the words, ' ' He that is not with 
me is against me. ' ' There is no middle or 
neutral ground. 



APPENDIX 

Since Chapter VII was written the au- 
thor's attention has been called to Mr. Wal- 
ter Wellman's significant article in the 
New York Times of March 3, 1918, under 
the caption, *^ Society of the World's Na- 
tions to Thwart the Power of Prussia." 
From the synopsis of his Program the fol- 
lowing sections are pertinent to our sub- 
ject: 

* ' Safeguard the future by erection of a world 
system in which this right and power to deny 
the world's privileges and opportunities to 
enemies of society are substituted for militarism 
as world society's final controlling force and 
means of maintaining security and order in the 
world community." 

* * Create this new system now, at once, by form- 
ing a permanent society of nations to take over 
control of this power and use it to compel Ger- 
many to become a part of the system by con- 
formance to its standards or suffer the penalty 
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186 APPENDIX 

of ifidefinite exclusion from tJie activities of the 
world/' ^ 

The above is at least a vast approach 
to the practical application of the princi- 
ples set forth in this book as to collective 
non-resistance and an eventual world-wide 
non-military program against Prnssianism. 
The attention of the reader is invited to 
the whole of Mr. Wellman's excellent and 
powerful article. 

The Authoe. 



APPENDIX TO SECOND EDITION 

Such criticisms of Intuition as have come 
to my attention pertain to minor details 
and in no way challenge the validity of the 
principles set forth. The expediency of 
citing Woodrow Wilson as an example of 
the intuitive man has, it is true, been ques- 
tioned. But I do not claim that Mr. Wil- 
son is unvaryingly intuitive — few men are 
— and if he has recently allowed intuition 
to be supplanted by less lofty faculties of 

^ The Italics do not occur in the Timea article. 



APPENDIX 187 

his mind, so mucli the worse for him, and 
the citations herein become the more strik- 
ing by comparison. 

Nor do I deem it essential to omit refer- 
ence to the world war and the momentous 
events of its aftermath. This work being 
a spiritual and psychological study, surely 
we may with profit refer to current history 
for the purpose of illustrating the princi- 
ples under consideration. 

Since Frederick Eawson has so clearly 
shown us that affirmations should be used 
impersonally I gladly acknowledge, on the 
whole, the soundness of his position. But 
that there are exceptions to this rule I am 
convinced by the example of the Great 
Master himself, who said, ^*I AM the resur- 
rection," **I AM the way, the truth, and 
the life." 

There are persons who perceive a deep 
spiritual meaning in these statements, and 
would not forego the appropriation of 
their affirmative values for the sake of any 
hard and fast rule. Surely intuition will 
inform us just when the rule does and 
does not apply. 

In considering the limited literature on 
the subject I gladly pay tribute to W. Fred- 



188 APPENDIX 

erick Keeler's broclinre, ^^ Intuition — Eow 
to use it/' Following are some of the most 
impressive of his statements: 

** Intuition is not a matter of first impression. 
It is an impression which will stand its own test, 
and it is never less than this. It is not a thing 
of emotionalism. It is a thing of warm, steady, 
still, tried and self -tested intelligence. * ' 

"Reason is never original. Intuition is always 
original. Reason never directly of itself brought 
genius or talent. The reasoner contents himself 
with reasoning about genius or talent." 

* * Give hituition its place ; that place is first. 
The intuitionalist does not lay reason aside but 
he uses this direct sense first and reasons about 
it afterwards. ' ' 

**The untrained mind believes its questions 
complex and their answers multiplex, therefore 
the untrained mind stumbles and gropes along, 
believing in complexities, and refusing sim- 
plicity.'* 

''The reasoner never reaches anything more 
definite than a conclusion and the intuitionalist 
never reaches anything less than a conviction.' ' i 

I wish I had written these myself. 

The Authob. 

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